Imperial China’s dynastic legal codes provide a wealth of information for historians, social scientists, and scholars of comparative law and of literary, cult

After overthrowing the Mongol Yuan dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), proclaimed that he had obtained the Mandate of Heaven (T

The contributors to this collection offer seven case studies that treat different aspects of political and ritual legitimation in China and Europe over the past

Presents a global history of dress regulation and debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised.

China is a country that is rich in antiquities, but it is also a victim of looting that occurred during the period from the First Opium War to the end of the Ja