The Mandate of Heaven and the Great Ming Code

Main Author: Jiang, Yonglin.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2011.
Series:Asian law series ; no. 21
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10477167
Table of Contents:
  • 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.