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After over 4000 years of development, the Chinese legal civilization has become a special school with its own distinctive characteristics and it has left a rich legal cultural heritage with a solid humanistic foundation. Besides, it has nourished the ancient Chinese empire and the neighboring countries and regions and has been at the forefront of the world legal civilization for a long time.
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Zhang, J. (2020). Introduction. In: The History of Chinese Legal Civilization. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1032-3_1
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