The contradictory role of eunuchs in ancient China has remained a long-term debate history. Often viewed as either holy or profane, occupied unique space society that defied easy categorization. This study challenges the prevailing negative perception dynastical by re-examining historical records and highlighting their positive contributions to society. portrayal wicked cunning individuals been...

The rural market was an important constituent of marketing system, and formed an un-vertical congruent relationship with urban market in late imperial China. There were different types of rural fair in the imperial China. Xu, Chang, Ji, Dian, Shi, Hui, all of them were the regular fairs. Their number was huge. They distributed widely, played a distinct role, and became the base of rural market ...

one of the topics that today has attracted attention of civil proceeding lawyers is a contractual approach to the commencement of litigation. in this approach, the litigants may by mutual agreement refer their case to a specific branch of court. in this paper, we discuss the commencement of civil proceedings by the agreement of litigants and how far it is possible for the parties to select the ...

one of the issues that has gained a good place in considerations of the office of the prosecution and international criminal court is the gravity threshold set out in paragraph 1(d) of article 17 of statute. this concept from the time of being inserted in statute has some challenges such as lack of definition in statute, lack of criterion for satisfaction of this concept. given to the fact that...

Supreme Court Justices' uniform professional backgrounds have drawn increasing criticism. Yet it is unclear how diverse professional training would affect the Court's decisions. This Article offers the first empirical analysis of how Justices with diverse professional training vote: It examines a unique period when Justices with formal legal education sat with Justices who entered the professio...

The 1897 colonial conference coincided with Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and an outpouring of late-Victorian imperial sentiment. Against this backdrop celebration, leaders met Secretary State for the Colonies, Joseph Chamberlain, whose own views as to importance reform were taking shape. For most part, while grateful Chamberlain's interests, Australian feared significant might undermine rat...