History of Chinese Legal Thought

Author: Wu Shuchen
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This book is an improved version of traditional Chinese legal thought history textbooks. Compared to conventional textbooks, it focuses on research methods; expands the description of ancient Chinese society to include the legendary era and the origins of law; introduces a new classification of pre-Qin Confucianism and argues for Confucian and Legalist thought from the perspective of regional culture, adding content on the Yin-Yang School, the School of Names, the Syncretic School, and the School of Agriculture; compresses the thoughts of the two thousand-year feudal era into several thematic sections, and introduces new content such as disputes in legislative and judicial practice, family and clan rules, official ethics, non-mainstream legal thought, and religious taboos; adds legal thought from the May Fourth Movement and the Republican era. All of these deepen and expand the fundamental content of this discipline, broadening readers' perspectives. The book is written with elegance and rigor, with clear and concise arguments. Professor Wu Shuchen has a solid foundation in legal history, intellectual history, and social history, and is particularly adept at researching traditional Chinese legal culture.