- VOLUME ONE: Note to the Reader 1.1 Acknowledgments 1.2 Chinese Dynasties 1.3 Recognized Rulers of the Qin and Han Dynasties and the Xin Period 1.4 Equivalents for Weights and Measures Mentioned in the Zhangjiashan Legal Texts and Other Parallel Texts 1.5 Early-Han Orders of Rank Mentioned in the Zhangjiashan Legal Texts 1.6 Official Titles Mentioned in the Zhangjiashan Legal Texts 1.7A Place-Names Mentioned in the Zhangjiashan Legal Texts 1.7B Map of Place-Names Mentioned in the Zhangjiashan Legal Texts (Boundaries, 187-186 BCE) 1.8 Types of Punishments and Associated Crimes in the Zhangjiashan Legal Texts 1.9A Placement of Slips in the Statutes and Ordinances of the Second Year Text 1.9B Placement of Slips in the Book of Submitted Doubtful Cases Text Introductory Study 2.1 Discovery, Conservation, Publication, and Previous Studies of the Zhangjiashan Texts 2.2 Principles of Translation and Working Methodology 2.3 Introduction to the Statutes and Ordinances of the Second Year Text 2.4 Forms of Legislation and Their Enactment 2.5 Introduction to the Book of Submitted Doubtful Cases Text 2.6 The Judicial Process in a Criminal Case 2.7 The Punishments 2.8 Conclusions Bibliography Index VOLUME TWO: Note to the Reader Key to Transcription Symbols and Punctuation Translation, Part One: Statutes and Ordinances of the Second Year (Ernian luling ) 3.1 "Statutes on Assault" (Zei lu ) 3.2 "Statutes on Robbery" (Dao lu ) 3.3 "Statutes on the Composition of Judgments" (Ju lu ) 3.4 "Statutes on Denunciations" (Gao lu ) 3.5 "Statutes on Arrest" (Bu lu ) 3.6 "Statutes on Abscondence" (Wang lu ) 3.7 "Statutes on Impoundment" (Shou lu ) 3.8 "Statutes on Miscellaneous Matters" (Za lu ) 3.9 "Statutes on Cash" (Qian lu ) 3.10 "Statutes on the Establishment of Officials" (Zhili lu ) 3.11 "Statutes on Equalizing Transportation" (Junshu lu ) 3.12 "Statutes on Food Rations at Conveyance Stations" (Zhuanshi lu ) 3.13 "Statutes on Agriculture" (Tian lu ) 3.14 "Statutes on [Passes and] Markets" ([Guan]shi lu [ ] ) 3.15 "Statutes on the Forwarding of Documents" (Xingshu lu ) 3.16 "Statutes on Exemption from Taxes" (Fu lu ) 3.17 "Statutes on Bestowals" (Ci lu ) 3.18 "Statutes on Households" (Hu lu ) 3.19 "Statutes on Checking" (Xiao lu ) 3.20 "Statutes on Enrollment" (Fu lu ) 3.21 "Statutes on Establishment of Heirs" (Zhihou lu ) 3.22 "Statutes on Ranks" (Jue lu ) 3.23 "Statutes on Levies" (Xing lu ) 3.24 "Statutes on Government Service" (Yao lu ) 3.25 "Statutes on Finance" (Jinbu lu ) 3.26 "Statutes on Salaries" (Zhi lu ) 3.27 "Statutes on Scribes" (Shi lu ) 3.28 "Ordinances on Fords and Passes" (Jinguan ling ) Translation, Part Two: Book of Submitted Doubtful Cases (Zouyan shu ) 4.1 The Absconding Indigenous Conscript 4.2 The Absconding Female Slave 4.3 The Eloping Lovers from Qi 4.4 A Mutilated Man Unwittingly Marries an Absconder 4.5 Sword Fight between a Runaway 'Slave' and a Thief Catcher 4.6 Beating to Death an Illegally Held Slave 4.7 A Crooked Widow Tries to Cheat Her Runaway Slaves 4.8 A Male Slave Escapes and a Border Guard is Punished 4.9 Falsifying the Account Books (1) 4.10 Falsifying the Account Books (2) 4.11 Counterfeiting a Horse Passport 4.12 A Delay in Forwarding Documents 4.13 A Small Bribe Results in a Large Fine 4.14 A Judiciary Scribe Harbors an Unregistered Person 4.15 A County Magistrate Robs Grain 4.16 A County Magistrate Orders the Murder of a Judiciary Scribe 4.17 A Successful Appeal of a Conviction Gained by False Accusation and Torture 4.18 The Benevolent Magistrate and the Chu Insurgency 4.19 Shi You Solves the Case of Hair and Grass in the Lord's Food 4.20 An Assistant Scribe Robs Grain and Confucian Principles 4.21 A Scribe of the Commandant of the Court Overturns a Sentence for Illicit Intercourse 4.22 A Cunning Scribe Solves a Robbery and Attempted Murder.
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Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China has been accorded Honorable Mention status in the 2017 Patrick D. Hanan Prize (China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC) of the Association for Asian Studies) for Translation competition. In Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China, Anthony J. Barbieri-Low and Robin D.S. Yates offer the first detailed study and translation into English of two recently excavated, early Chinese legal texts. The Statutes and Ordinances of the Second Year consists of a selection from the long-lost laws of the early Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE). It includes items from twenty-seven statute collections and one ordinance. The Book of Submitted Doubtful Cases contains twenty-two legal case records, some of which have undergone literary embellishment. Taken together, the two texts contain a wealth of information about slavery, social class, ranking, the status of women and children, property, inheritance, currency, finance, labor mobilization, resource extraction, agriculture, market regulation, and administrative geography.
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