The Constitution of Ancient China : : Not Assigned / / Su Su Li; ed. by Zhang Yongle, Daniel A. Bell.

• Übergeordnet: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English
• VerfasserIn: Su Li, Su,
• MitwirkendeR: Bell, Daniel A.,; Fei, Wu,; Han, Liu,; Hui, Wang,; Li, Su,; Xiaoli, Zhao,; Yongle, Zhang,
• HerausgeberIn: Bell, Daniel A.,; Yongle, Zhang,
• TeilnehmendeR: Ryden, Edmund.
• Ort / Verlag: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• Serie: The Princeton-China Series ; 9
• Beschreibung: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 1 b/w illus.

How was the vast ancient Chinese empire brought together and effectively ruled? What are the historical origins of the resilience of contemporary China's political system? In The Constitution of Ancient China, Su Li, China's most influential legal theorist, examines the ways in which a ser...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• EDITORS' ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• Editors' Introduction
• Introduction
• Part I
• CHAPTER 1. The Constitution of the Territory and Politics of a Large State
• CHAPTER 2. Ancient China's Cultural Constitution: A Unified Script and Mandarin Chinese
• CHAPTER 3. Scholar-Officials
• Part II
• CHAPTER 4. The Mixed Han-Tang-Song Structure and Its Moral Ideal: A Reply to Professor Su Li's Account of the Chinese Constitution
• CHAPTER 5. The Symbolic and the Functional: Su Li on the Constitution of Ancient China
• CHAPTER 6. The Ideal of Civilization and Formation of Institutions in Ancient China: A Reply to Su Li
• CHAPTER 7. History, Culture, Revolution, and Chinese Constitutionalism
• Part III
• CHAPTER 8. Response to My Critics
• Glossary Of Key Terms
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index