The Constitution of Ancient China by Su Su Li

The Constitution of Ancient China by Su Su Li

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

"Su Li is, by many measures, the single most influential Chinese legal academic of the past twenty yearsThis is one of the most important works on historical Chinese constitutionalism to come out in years, and will most certainly be a milestone work against which future research in this area will be constantly measured."—Taisu Zhang, Yale Law School
"A bold theoretical exploration and systematic reinterpretation of ancient constitutionalism, this book forms a new space for the analysis of the Chinese political-legal system that encompasses the ancient in the modern."—Xiang Feng, Tsinghua University

Su Li (Zhu Suli) is a professor at Peking University Law School and a pioneering scholar in the sociology of law, law and economics, and law and literature in China. His many books include Rule of Law and Its Indigenous Resources, Sending Law to the Countryside, and Law and Literature.

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ISBN 13	9780691171593
ISBN 10	0691171599
Title	The Constitution of Ancient China
Author	Su Su Li
Series	The Princeton-China Series
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Year published	2018-08-07
Number of pages	304
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