Jiang Yonglin

The Mandate of Heaven and the Great Ming Code

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This companion volume to Jiang Yonglin's translation of The Great Ming Code (2005) analyzes the thought underlying the imperial legal code. Was the concept of the Mandate of Heaven merely a tool manipulated by the ruling elite to justify state power, or was it essential to their belief system and to the intellectual foundation of legal culture? What role did law play in the imperial effort to carry out the social reform programs?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780295999029
• ISBN-10: 0295999020
• Artikelnr.: 43850275

Autorenporträt

Jiang Yonglin

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Introduction - Religion and Chinese Legal Cosmology
2. Early Ming Legal Cosmology - Embodying Heavenly Principle and Human
Sentiment
3. The Great Ming Code and the World of Spirits - Regulating Rituals for
Communicating with Deities
4. The Great Ming Code and the Human Realm - Creating Boundaries for the
Ming Empire
5. The Great Ming Code and Officialdom - Rectifying Mediating
Representatives
6. Conclusion - Manifesting the Mandate of Heaven
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index