Wejen Chang (Emeritus Professor of Law, Academia Sinica, Taipei)

Gebundenes Buch

In Search of the Way

Legal Philosophy of the Classic Chinese Thinkers

Beschreibung

Analyses the influence of eight classic Chinese thinkers on the development of Chinese law: Confucius, Laozi, Mozi, Zhuangzi, Mencius, Xunzi, Shang Yang and Han Fei. These thinkers helped found the Confucian, Daoist, Mohist and Legalist schools of thought, and their ideas continue to guide Chinaâ s law, philosophy and society.

Autor

Wejen Chang is one of only a few of his contemporaries to have had traditional Chinese education in youth learning the Classics exclusively. He studied law and political science in Taiwan and received an LL.M. from Yale and an SJD from Harvard. Following research at Academia Sinica, Taiwan, he has taught Chinese legal history and jurisprudence in Taiwan (Taiwan University), China (Peking and Tsinghua universities), the US (UCLA, Harvard, NYU) and Europe (Collège de France, Leuven Catholic University).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 168mm x 243mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 964g
• ISBN-13: 9780748669561
• ISBN-10: 0748669566
• Artikelnr.: 45329306