GULIK, Robert van.

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Tang-Yin-Pi-Shih. First edition, scarce in the jacket. Van Gulik drew on cases from the Tang-Yin-Pi-Shih as plot devices for his Judge Dee novels, and his long introductory essay in this publication is one of the earliest Western scholarly treatments of Chinese legal history. The Tang-Yin-Pi-Shih records over 100 legal cases. It was compiled by the Southern Song bureaucrat Gui Wanrong (ca. 1170-1260) and was widely consulted for hundreds of years.

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