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The constitution of ancient China / Su Li ; edited by Zhang Yongle and Daniel Bell ; translated by Edmund Ryden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Su, Li, 1955- author.
- Series:
- Princeton-China series.
- Princeton-China series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional history--China.
- Constitutional history.
- Culture and law--China.
- Culture and law.
- China--Politics and government.
- China.
- China--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- 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? This work examines the ways in which a series of fundamental institutions, rather than a supreme legal code upholding the laws of the land, evolved and coalesced into an effective constitution.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Su Li
- The constitution of the territory and politics of a large state / Su Li
- Ancient china's cultural constitutionality / Su Li
- Scholar-officials / Su Li
- The mixed Han-Tang-Song structure and its moral ideal / Wang Hui
- The symbolic and the functional / Liu han
- The ideal of civilization / Wu fei
- History, culture, revolution, and Chinese constitutionalism / Zhao Xiaoli
- Response to my critics / Su Li.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781400889778
- 1400889774
- OCLC:
- 1043040606
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