The Form and Function of Legal Statutes Found in the Qin Shuihudi Corpus
by
Ernest Caldwell
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
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...