TY  - BOOK
AU  - Su Li,Su
AU  - Bell,Daniel A.
AU  - Fei,Wu
AU  - Han,Liu
AU  - Hui,Wang
AU  - Li,Su
AU  - Ryden,Edmund
AU  - Xiaoli,Zhao
AU  - Yongle,Zhang
TI  - The Constitution of Ancient China: Not Assigned 
T2  - The Princeton-China Series
SN  - 9780691171593
AV  - KNN2090 .S826 2019
U1  - 342.31029 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Constitutional history
KW  - China
KW  - Culture and law
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / China
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Chinese characters
KW  - Chinese empire
KW  - Common Program of 1949
KW  - Confucianism
KW  - Germany
KW  - Great Learning
KW  - Great Wall
KW  - Mandarin Chinese
KW  - Qin dynasty
KW  - Su Li
KW  - Third Reich
KW  - Weimar Constitution
KW  - administrative divisions
KW  - ancient China
KW  - beliefs
KW  - bureaucracy
KW  - civilization
KW  - commandery system
KW  - constitution
KW  - constitutional continuity
KW  - constitutional discontinuity
KW  - constitutional law
KW  - constitutionalism
KW  - cosmology
KW  - cultural community
KW  - cultural constitution
KW  - effective constitution
KW  - emperor
KW  - examination system
KW  - feudal clan law
KW  - feudal system
KW  - geoclimatic conditions
KW  - geopolitics
KW  - institutions
KW  - knowledge
KW  - large state
KW  - legitimacy continuity
KW  - legitimation
KW  - meritocracy
KW  - political life
KW  - political order
KW  - political rationalization
KW  - politico-cultural elites
KW  - politics
KW  - reading
KW  - recommendation system
KW  - revolution
KW  - rites
KW  - scholar-officials
KW  - selection system
KW  - social consensus
KW  - structural functionalism
KW  - territory
KW  - traditions
KW  - unified script
KW  - unified speech
KW  - uniform weights
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; EDITORS' ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; Editors' Introduction --; Introduction --; Part I --; CHAPTER 1. The Constitution of the Territory and Politics of a Large State --; CHAPTER 2. Ancient China's Cultural Constitution: A Unified Script and Mandarin Chinese --; CHAPTER 3. Scholar-Officials --; Part II --; CHAPTER 4. The Mixed Han-Tang-Song Structure and Its Moral Ideal: A Reply to Professor Su Li's Account of the Chinese Constitution --; CHAPTER 5. The Symbolic and the Functional: Su Li on the Constitution of Ancient China --; CHAPTER 6. The Ideal of Civilization and Formation of Institutions in Ancient China: A Reply to Su Li --; CHAPTER 7. History, Culture, Revolution, and Chinese Constitutionalism --; Part III --; CHAPTER 8. Response to My Critics --; Glossary Of Key Terms --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - How was the vast ancient Chinese empire brought together and effectively ruled? What are the historical origins of the resilience of contemporary China's political system? In The Constitution of Ancient China, Su Li, China's most influential legal theorist, examines the ways in which a series of fundamental institutions, rather than a supreme legal code upholding the laws of the land, evolved and coalesced into an effective constitution.Arguing that a constitution is an institutional response to a set of issues particular to a specific society, Su Li demonstrates how China unified a vast territory, diverse cultures, and elites from different backgrounds into a whole. He delves into such areas as uniform weights and measurements, the standardization of Chinese characters, and the building of the Great Wall. The book includes commentaries by four leading Chinese scholars in law, philosophy, and intellectual history--Wang Hui, Liu Han, Wu Fei, and Zhao Xiaoli-who share Su Li's ambition to explain the resilience of ancient China's political system but who contend that he overstates functionalist dimensions while downplaying the symbolic. Exploring why China has endured as one political entity for over two thousand years, The Constitution of Ancient China will be essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the institutional legacy of the Chinese empire
UR  - https://doi.org/10.23943/9781400889778?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400889778
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400889778/original
ER  -