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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457023403321

Autore

Jiang Yonglin

Titolo

The Mandate of Heaven and the Great Ming Code [[electronic resource] /] / Jiang Yonglin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2011

ISBN

0-295-80166-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Collana

Asian law series ; ; no. 21

Disciplina

349.51

Soggetti

Law - China - History - To 1500

Religion and law - China - History - To 1500

Electronic books.

China Politics and government 1368-1644 Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : religion and Chinese legal cosmology -- Early Ming legal cosmology : embodying heavenly principle and human sentiment -- The Great Ming Code and the world of spirits : regulating rituals in communicating with deities -- The Great Ming Code and the human realm : creating boundaries for the Ming empire -- The Great Ming Code and officialdom : rectifying mediating representatives.