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| | John W. Head, Codes, Cultures, Chaos, and Champions: Common Features of Legal Codification Experiences in China, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | The third century BCE may be viewed as the defining period of Chinese unification. |
 | | In 221 BCE, the state of Qin, one of various warring states, prevailed over the others and brought centralized rule to most of what is now east-central China. |
 | | Still later, in the fourth century BCE, Shang Yang, a minister of the state of Qin, is said to have prepared another code (the Shang Yang Lü) as part of a program of radical government reform that embraced Legalist views. |
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