Studies in East Asian Law

Essays on China's Legal Tradition Edited by Jerome Alan Cohen, Fu-mei Chang Chen, and R. Randle Edwards

In this volume of essays a group of scholars from Europe, Japan, the Republic of China, and the United States examines China's legal tradition to determine its importance for the study of both pre-modern China and of contemporary...

The Chinese Communist Treatment of Counterrevolutionaries, 1924-1949 Patricia E. Griffin

During the period 1924-1949, amid civil war with the KMT, war with the Japanese, internal leadership disputes, and other chaotic conditions, rapid shifts occurred in the political culture of China. Patricia Griffin contends that an...

Chinese Legal Tradition Under the Mongols: The Code of 1291 as Reconstructed Paul Heng-chao Ch'en

The evolution of China's legal tradition was one of the most striking aspects of the transformation of Chinese civilization under Mongolian domination. Paul Ch'en's exploration of the legal system of the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) and its...