The Mandate of Heaven and the Great Ming Code
This study challenges the conventional assumption that law in pre-modern China was used merely as an arm of the state to maintain social control and as a secular tool to exercise naked power
Print Book, English, ©2011
University of Washington Press, Seattle, ©2011
Asian law series, no. 21
History
xiv, 245 pages ; 24 cm
9780295990651, 9780295993430, 0295990651, 029599343X
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Introduction : religion and Chinese legal cosmology
Early Ming legal cosmology : embodying heavenly principle and human sentiment
The Great Ming Code and the world of spirits : regulating rituals in communicating with deities
The Great Ming Code and the human realm : creating boundaries for the Ming empire
The Great Ming Code and officialdom : rectifying mediating representatives
Conclusion : manifesting the mandate of heaven