Description: 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.
Review Quotes:
"McKnight and Liu have produced a good translation of valuable material." -- China Review International
"The Enlightened Judgments is an outstanding work. It could be the most important book published in Sung studies in the last decade or more, and it will be of considerable importance to the study of other periods of Chinese history, as well as to scholars and students of world history, local government, and comparative law." -- Bettine Birge, University of Southern California
"This is an extremely significant topic and work. The Ch'ing-ming Chi is one of the most important sources for the socioeconomic history not only for the Sung, but for all of premodern China. As the introduction explains, the complete version of the work was only discovered in the 1980s, making it easily the most important newly discovered work in Sung history. Moreover, save for snippets in several books and dissertations, it has not been published in English." -- John Chaffee, author of The Thorny Gates of Learning in Sung China, New Edition