Writing Chinese Laws: The Form and Function of Legal Statutes Found in the Qin Shuihudi Corpus
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 24512
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780815396925
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 18 - Law
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This highly interdisciplinary output draws on methods of linguistics, sinology, history and legal studies to analyse excavated Chinese legal statutes from the 4th century BCE written on bamboo slips. Using ancient Chinese manuscripts written in an early script form as the primary source, as well as modern scholarship written in multiple Asian and western languages, the output is the result of 7 years of research into how the intended function of an early Chinese legal statute influenced its production. This required a high level of paleographic knowledge and substantial efforts to gain access to the manuscripts in China
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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