Adultery Law and State Power in Early Empires
China and Rome Compared
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3793166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yunxin Li (0009-0006-4833-4247) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 322-342 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Journal of Law and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2052-9015 • E-ISSN: 2052-9023 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/als.2024.10 |
| OpenAlex | W4399299963 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
As ancient China and Rome transformed into empires, both states showed an increasing interest in regulating family ethics and individuals' sexuality. Using excavated documents and transmitted texts, this article compares legal statutes and practices against illicit consensual sex in early imperial China (221 BCE-220 CE) with those in the Roman empire. On the one hand, both legal systems aimed at consolidating social hierarchies based on gender, status, and generation. On the other, the Roman and Chinese statutes had different emphases due to their respective political, social, and cultural contexts, and the actual penalties for adultery and incest differed significantly from those prescribed in the statutes. In both empires, control over individuals' sexuality facilitated state power's penetration into the family during empire-building, giving rise to laws in areas that had been largely left to customs and individual will
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Porous Bodies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |