Explores the spirit of Chinese law from a cultural perspective, adopting hermeneutics research methods and including historical sociological aspects

Analyzes some mistakes in the study of the legal history, and illustrates the difference between Chinese and Western legal tradition by comparing some key concepts of law
Introduces both Chinese and Western legal traditions and their cultural background

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Zhiping Liang, an eminent Chinese scholar of legal history, sociological jurisprudence, and comparative law, is currently a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences & a professor at the School of Law, Zhejiang University. He received an LLB degree from Southwest University of Political Science and Law in 1982 and an LLM degree from the School of Law, the Renmin University of China, in 1985. He has visited many universities globally, including Columbia University, Harvard University, EHESS, Paris, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Professor Liang's writings on law and culture have influenced generations of Chinese students and young scholars. As a prolific writer, he has written and edited 20 books and numerous articles, including Explicating Law, Searching for the Natural Order---Studies of Chinese Legal Tradition from a Cultural Perspective, A Cultural Interpretationof Law, Customary Law in the Qing, On the Rule of Law and Rule of Virtue and Governing: Ideas of Achieving Good Governance in Ancient China.

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Family and Country.- Punishment and Law.- The Method of Controlling Disorder.- "Fajing" and the Law of the Twelve Tables.- Personal.- Class.- The Distinction of Morality and Interests.- No-lawsuit.- The Ethical and Legal Culture.- Li and Law: the Legalization of Moral.- Li and Law: the Moralization of Law.- Natural Law.- The Turning Point: the Past and the Future.