A Discussion on Tang Dynasty Economic and Civil Legal Issues

Author: Zhang Zhongqiu
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Publish Date: 2002-04-01
Features: This book focuses on the economic and civil legal issues of Tang Dynasty China, systematically explaining and analyzing land, taxation, industry, commerce, monopoly, currency, foreign trade, and civil legal sources in the Tang Dynasty. It also covers civil subjects, as well as legal systems and practices related to property rights, debts, marriage, family, kinship, inheritance, and civil litigation. This approach reveals some common and unique characteristics of Tang Dynasty economic and civil law. Compared to the West, these characteristics reflect a dualistic unification structure of politics and economy, Confucian ethics and law, state and society, officialdom and the public, holism and individualism, power and rights, and public and private relationships. Its function manifests as a form of social control law, expressing traditional Chinese cultural ideals in terms of values, which remains inspiring even today.