Writing Chinese Laws: The Form and Function of Legal Statutes Found in the Qin Shuihudi Corpus

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Ernest Caldwell (SOAS, UK)

Writing Chinese Laws

The Form and Function of Legal Statutes Found in the Qin Shuihudi Corpus

Ernest Caldwell (SOAS, UK)

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Routledge
31 March 2021

Regional studies; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; International law; Laws of Specific jurisdictions

Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Law

The legal institutions of the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–207 BCE) have been vilified by history as harsh and draconian. Yet ironically, many Qin institutional features, such as written statutory law, were readily adopted by subsequent dynasties as the primary means for maintaining administrative and social control.

This book utilizes both traditional texts and archeologically excavated materials to explore how these influential Qin legal institutions developed. First, it investigates the socio-political conditions which led to the production of law in written form. It then goes on to consider how the intended function of written law influenced the linguistic composition of legal statutes, as well as their physical construction. Using a function and form approach, it specifically analyses the Shuihudi legal corpus. However, unlike many previous studies of Chinese legal manuscripts, which have focused on codicological issues of transcription and translation, this book considers the linguistic aspects of these manuscripts and thus their importance for understanding the development of early Chinese legal thought.

Writing Chinese Laws will be useful to students and scholars of Chinese Studies, as well as Asian law and history more generally.

By: Ernest Caldwell (SOAS UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 140g
ISBN: 9780367445225
ISBN 10: 0367445220
Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Law
Pages: 212
Publication Date: 31 March 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ernest Caldwell is Assistant Professor in the School of Law at SOAS, University of London, UK. He specializes in legal history, environmental law, and public law in China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia.