Qin law anchored China’s low corporal-punishment profile for two millennia.
Evidence
This legal substrate — Qin law and its Han continuations — is one of the things that gave Chinese household culture its distinctive comparatively-low corporal-punishment profile across two thousand years. It was not just face. It was not just philosophy. It was also law. And the law, operationally, protected children in some specific ways that contemporary Roman, Greek, and post-Augustinian Christian European law did not. — , The Rod and the Child, 1067
Categorization
- XREF: Ties together the three constraint layers — face, Mohist universal care, and state law — from Episodes 12 and 13.
Related
- Qin law protected children’s lives earlier than Roman law did. (similarity 0.81)
- Qin law operationalized age-of-capacity two millennia before Anglo-American law. (similarity 0.79)