The Constitution of Ancient China（The Princeton-China Series）

中國古代憲法

基本信息

Author：Su Li

Format：Hardback | 304 pages

Dimensions：155 x 235 x 27.94mm | 566.99g

Publication date：07 Aug 2018

Publisher：Princeton University Press

Language：English

ISBN10：0691171599

ISBN13：9780691171593

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書籍簡介

龐大的古代中華帝國是如何團結起來並有效統治的？當代中國政治制度彈性的歷史根源是什麼？中國*影響力的法律理論家朱蘇力在《中國古代憲法》中不是維護土地法律的最高法律法規，而是考察了一系列基本制度是如何演變並融合成一部有效的憲法的。

朱蘇力認為，憲法是對特定社會特定問題的制度性迴應，展示了中國如何將廣袤的領土、多元的文化和來自不同背景的精英統一為一個整體。他深入研究了諸如統一度量衡、漢字標準化和修建長城等領域。該書包括了四位中國法律、哲學和思想史方面的著名學者——王輝、劉漢、吳非和趙曉力的評論。他們和朱蘇力一樣，都想解釋中國古代政治體系的彈性，但他們認為朱蘇力誇大了功能主義的維度，而忽視了象徵主義。

《古代中國憲法》探究為什麼中國作為一個政治實體存在了兩千多年，它對於任何有興趣瞭解中華帝國制度遺產的人來説都是必不可少的讀物。

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 code upholding the laws of the land, evolved and coalesced into an effective constitution.

Arguing that a constitution is an institutional response to a set of issues particular to a specific society, Su Li demonstrates how China unified a vast territory, diverse cultures, and elites from different backgrounds into a whole. He delves into such areas as uniform weights and measurements, the standardization of Chinese characters, and the building of the Great Wall. The book includes commentaries by four leading Chinese scholars in law, philosophy, and intellectual history-Wang Hui, Liu Han, Wu Fei, and Zhao Xiaoli-who share Su Li's ambition to explain the resilience of ancient China's political system but who contend that he overstates functionalist dimensions while downplaying the symbolic.

Exploring why China has endured as one political entity for over two thousand years, The Constitution of Ancient China will be essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the institutional legacy of the Chinese empire.

作者簡介

朱蘇力，北京大學法學院教授，中國法學社會學、法學與經濟學、法學與文學的先驅學者。他的著作有《法治與鄉土資源》、《把法律送到農村》、《法律與文學》等。

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.

目錄

Editors' Acknowledgments vii

Editors' Introduction Zhang Yongle Daniel A. Bell 1

Introduction Su Li 16

Part I 31

Chapter 1 The Constitution of the Territory and Politics of a Large State Su Li 33

Chapter 2 Ancient China's Cultural Constitution: A Unified Script and Mandarin Chinese Su Li 66

Chapter 3 Scholar-Officials Su Li 98

Part II 139

Chapter 4 The Mixed Han-Tang-Song Structure and Its Moral Ideal: A Reply to Professor Su Li's Account of the Chinese Constitution Wang Hui 141

Chapter 5 The Symbolic and the Functional: Su Li on the Constitution of Ancient China Liu Han 177

Chapter 6 The Ideal of Civilization and Formation of Institutions in Ancient China: A Reply to Su Li Wu Fei 191

Chapter 7 History, Culture, Revolution, and Chinese Constitutionalism Zhao Xiaoli 198

Part III 209

Chapter 8 Response to My Critics Su Li 211

Glossary of Key Terms 231

Notes 235

Bibliography 269

Contributors 283

Index 285