An Analysis on Chinese Legal Culture from the Stories of Public Cases in the Novels of Mystery and the Supernatural in the Wei and Jin Dynasties
Public case novels,originating from the Song Dynasty,are an important genre of classical Chinese novels.However,tracing back to the origin,as early as the embryonic stage of Chinese novels in the Wei and Jin Dynasties,many storylines with"public case"elements had already appeared in novels of mystery and the supernatural.The public case stories in those novels are actually literary reproductions of political and legal issues in real society.They not only reflect the development and evolution of the social legal system and legal ideology at that time,but also reflect people's legal concepts and psychology at that time.They have unique value in the study of traditional Chinese legal culture in a specific period.
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