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 specializes in the economic and civil legal issues of Tang Dynasty China, systematically explaining and analyzing the legal systems and practices of land, taxation, industry and commerce, state monopolies, currency, foreign trade, civil legal sources, civil legal subjects, as well as property rights, creditor's rights, marriage, family relations, inheritance, and civil litigation. It further reveals some common and distinct characteristics of Tang Dynasty's economic and civil legal system. Compared to the West, these characteristics reflect a unified structural framework of political and economic, Confucian ethics and law, state and society, official and civilian, the whole and the individual, power and rights, and the dualistic structure of public and private dominance. Its function manifests as a social control law, and its value expresses the inherent cultural ideals of traditional China, which remain inspiring even today.