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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: 2007-11-01) |
 | | It is the 737 version of the Tang Code, as copied in much later manuscripts (probably all dating from the period of the Yuan dynasty) that we have today and that Professor Wallace Johnson of Kansas University has translated. |
 | | For example, the Code itself is to be regarded as representing the yin -- the dark side of social control -- in contrast with the yang influence of ritual, morality, and education. |
 | | The codes were to include "a political code, embracing all the laws relating to government and official relations; a code of civil procedure, or remedies in civil cases; a code of criminal procedure, or remedies in criminal cases; a code of private rights and obligations; and a code of crimes and punishments." |
| www.law.duke.edu /journals/djcil/articles/DJCIL13P1.HTM (17152 words) |
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