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Societies Exposed to Chinese Legal Influence

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Legal Traditions in Asia

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Abstract

Paradoxically, Vietnamese and Korean societies fought with arms against Chinese imperialism, they nevertheless embraced Chinese cultural dominance and were proud of having a Chinese way of life, particularly the elite and the intelligentsia. As a result, both countries adopted Confucian understanding on state, society and law and followed a rather legist legal practice. This chapter tells this story of contradiction through centuries, highlighting masterpieces of law making such as the humanistic criminal law of Ly Thai Tong, the Le Code in Vietnam and the Six Codes (Gyeongje Yukcheon) in Korea. With the detailed analyses of these texts we can learn how indigenous legal institutions found their way into a larger framework of law modelled on the Chinese experience.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    SarDesai (2013: 34–35).

  2. 2.

    Church (2009: 184–185).

  3. 3.

    Nghia (2005: 86).

  4. 4.

    Huy and Van Tai (1986: 443).

  5. 5.

    SarDesai (2013: 33).

  6. 6.

    Huy and Van Tai (1986: 435–437, 1987: 5–7).

  7. 7.

    Taylor (1992: 137–148) and Huy and Van Tai (1986: 437–438, 1987: 8–11).

  8. 8.

    Dutton et al. (2012: 42).

  9. 9.

    Taylor (1992: 148–150) and Huy and Van Tai (1986: 437–439, 1987: 12–17).

  10. 10.

    SarDesai (2013: 37–39), Taylor (1992: 151–152), Huy and Van Tai (1986: 439–440, 1987: 17–19) and Huy (1981: 239).

  11. 11.

    Church (2009: 186–188) and Huy and Van Tai (1986: 441–442, 1987: 29–31).

  12. 12.

    Hop (2011: 207–209).

  13. 13.

    I:I: 9.

  14. 14.

    I:I: 16, 37.

  15. 15.

    I:II: 51–52.

  16. 16.

    I:II: 54.

  17. 17.

    I:II: 61.

  18. 18.

    I:II: 64, 67.

  19. 19.

    I:II: 71, 74–77, 80.

  20. 20.

    III:V: 293.

  21. 21.

    II:III: 126, 147.

  22. 22.

    II:III: 110–111; 132–133.

  23. 23.

    II:III: 144, 216; IV:VIII: 411.

  24. 24.

    II:III: 138.

  25. 25.

    III:V: 285–287; 299; 311.

  26. 26.

    III:V: 294–295.

  27. 27.

    II:III: 181–182; V:XI: 575.

  28. 28.

    III:V: 314–315.

  29. 29.

    III:V: 322.

  30. 30.

    III:V: 316, 323, 324, 334.

  31. 31.

    III:V: 317.318; II:III: 130.

  32. 32.

    III:V: 308–309; 321, 333.

  33. 33.

    III:VII: 401–410.

  34. 34.

    IV:VII: 415–416, 419, 423–425.

  35. 35.

    IV:VII: 411, 426, 430–431, 450.

  36. 36.

    IV:VII: 482–483.

  37. 37.

    V:XI: 580–583.

  38. 38.

    Kim (2012: 2; 14).

  39. 39.

    Shaw (1980a: 302–303).

  40. 40.

    Kim (2012: 25–27).

  41. 41.

    Nathan (2014: 260), Kwon (2011: 152–153) and Kim (2013: 2–4).

  42. 42.

    Chun (1980: 5–7; 10) and Shaw (1980b: 33).

  43. 43.

    Choi (1980: 57).

  44. 44.

    Nathan (2014: 270–271), Kwon (2011: 152–153), Kim (2013: 2–4), Shaw (1980a: 303–306) and Choi (2005: 66–72).

  45. 45.

    Kim (2012: 22–23).

  46. 46.

    Chun (1980: 9–11).

  47. 47.

    Choi (2005: 88–104; 137–138).

  48. 48.

    Choi (1980: 65–67).

  49. 49.

    Choi (1980: 69–70).

  50. 50.

    The history of the hyangyak is presented by Kim (2012: 41–51).

  51. 51.

    Shaw (1980b: 42–44).

  52. 52.

    Choi (2005: 298–303).

  53. 53.

    Kwon (2011: 152–156), Kim (2012: 101–192, 2013: 5–6) and Choi (1980: 88, 2005: 162).

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Jany, J. (2020). Societies Exposed to Chinese Legal Influence. In: Legal Traditions in Asia. Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, vol 80. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43728-2_11

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