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cjal-3246	Wang, Zhiqiang	Case Precedent in Qing China: Rethinking Traditional Case Law	2005	22	.pdf	application/pdf	8592	414	56	The three tables that follow index collections of case precedents from throughout the Qing dynasty. L.J.], No. 4, 2002, at 79 n.1. COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF ASIAN LAW [19:1 China had a long history of implementing case law and, accordingly, they have proposed a revival of that tradition in modem society.2 Others have denied the universal existence of such a system in Chinese history,3 and still others have warned against possible misunderstandings arising from garbled usage of Western terminology without further exploration and detailed comparison.4 By most conservative standards, the practice of considering earlier cases in making judicial decisions dates back to the 3rd century B.C., when the first imperial dynasty, the Qin (221 B.C. - 206 B.C.), established that the source of its law was the tingxingshi (i , practice of the tingwei, 31F, or Chamberlains of Justice).	cache/cjal-3246.pdf	txt/cjal-3246.txt