IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 1503: Byzantine Studies in China, I: Studies in Byzantine Law in China

Organiser:	Li Qiang, Institute for the History of Ancient Civilisations, Northeast Normal University, China
Moderator/Chair:	Rebecca Darley, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London
Respondent:	Stefanos Kordosis, Department of Hellenic Civilization, Hellenic Open University, Greece
Paper 1503-a	The Research Program on Byzantine Laws in China (Language: English) Jia-ling Xu, Institute for the History of Ancient Civilisations, Northeast Normal University, China Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Law, Social History
Paper 1503-b	The Byzantine Legislation on the Sexual Crimes in the 8th Century (Language: English) Xiao-Bo Wang, School of Humanities, Kaili University, China Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Law, Sexuality, Social History
Abstract	This panel examines issues related to Byzantine law. It opens with a reflection on the study of Byzantine law in China by Jia-ling Xu, examining the unique and distinctive ways in which scholars in China have approached the topic. It then presents specific studies, by Xiao-Bo Wang and Ji-rong Li, focused on developments in Middle Byzantine Law.