During the traumatic opening decades of the Southern Sung, Emperor Kao-tsung's unspoken determination to win imperial safety at any cost shaped not only court policy but Confucian intellectual develo
McKnight (east Asian studies, U. of Arizona) and the late Liu (east Asian studies, Princeton U.) translate and extensively annotate about half of Ming-kung shu-p'an ch'ing-ming chi , an anonymous 13t
The first English translation of a selection of legal documents from Sung Dynasty China, this work provides a fascinating look at the legal, social, and economic history of that era.
