Title: The Law and Writing Materials in Ancient China
Lecturer: Itaru TOMIYA (Professor emeritus, Kyoto University)
Chairperson: MOU Fasong (Professor, Department of History, East China Normal University)
Date: 2 pm, September 19th, 2017 (Tuesday)
Venue: Room 5303, Building of School of Humanities, Minhang Campus, ECNU
Sponsor: Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, ECNU
Abstract of the Lecture:
The writing material in the Han period was wood or bamboo cut into slips. Han lü漢律 and Han ling 漢令 were written on wood and bamboo slips. The format of law, the authorization of law, and the editing of provisions in a law were closely related to the material to write them on, i.e., wooden slips. It can be true, therefore, that the format of law was determined by the writing material.
