Die juristischen Manuskripte der Qin-Zeit (3. Jh. v. Chr.) aus der Sammlung der Yuelu-Akademie

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Michael Friedrich
• Subject Area: Social and Cultural Anthropology, Non-European Cultures, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
• Term: from 2010 to 2014
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 169332490

The law of ancient China was only vaguely known before the startling discovery of legal manuscripts in the tombs of Shuihudi (3rd century BC) and Zhangjiashan (2nd century BC). In the winter of 2007 the Yuelu-Academy of Hunan-University in Changsha acquired about 1150 bamboo slips from the 3rd century BC containing a large corpus of legal texts that can substantially supplement the known material with new texts concerning penal and administrative law. These texts will be accessed in close cooperation with the editorial team, scrutinized with regard to legal and cultural history and made available to the public in form of commented English translations. The findings will furthermore be included in an online-dictionary on ancient Chinese legal terminology. Exemplary studies will shed light on the Yuelu-Academy collection of legal cases in comparison with the Zouyanshu from Zhangjiashan] as well as some aspects of administrative law.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants