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Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 | INTRODUCTION
- Religion and Chinese Legal Cosmology
- 2 | EARLY MING LEGAL COSMOLOGY
- Embodying Heavenly Principle and Human Sentiment
- 3 | THE GREAT MING CODE AND THE WORLD OF SPIRITS
- Regulating Rituals for Communicating with Deities
- 4 | THE GREAT MING CODE AND THE HUMAN REALM
- Creating Boundaries for the Ming Empire
- 5 | THE GREAT MING CODE AND OFFICIALDOM
- Rectifying Mediating Representatives
- 6 | CONCLUSION
- Manifesting the Mandate of Heaven
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index