{"product_id":"law-state-and-society-in-early-imperial-china-2-vols-9789004292833","title":"Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China (2 vols)","description":"\u003ci\u003eLaw, State, and Society in Early Imperial China\u003c\/i\u003e has been accorded Honorable Mention status in the 2017 Patrick D. Hanan Prize (China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC) of the Association for Asian Studies) for Translation competition.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn \u003ci\u003eLaw, State, and Society in Early Imperial China\u003c\/i\u003e, Anthony J. Barbieri-Low and Robin D.S. Yates offer the first detailed study and translation into English of two recently excavated, early Chinese legal texts. The \u003ci\u003eStatutes and Ordinances of the Second Year\u003c\/i\u003e consists of a selection from the long-lost laws of the early Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE). It includes items from twenty-seven statute collections and one ordinance. The \u003ci\u003eBook of Submitted Doubtful Cases\u003c\/i\u003e contains twenty-two legal case records, some of which have undergone literary embellishment. Taken together, the two texts contain a wealth of information about slavery, social class, ranking, the status of women and children, property, inheritance, currency, finance, labor mobilization, resource extraction, agriculture, market regulation, and administrative geography.","brand":"Anthony J. Barbieri-Low","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48270005534971,"sku":"9789004292833","price":490.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_1171ac63-de8c-4145-8aa9-64cbfa3e4d69.jpg?v=1774721321","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/law-state-and-society-in-early-imperial-china-2-vols-9789004292833","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}