Qin ding Hui jiang ze li 欽定回疆則例 [Imperially Authorized Substatutes and Precedents of the Muslim...
Eight juan plus one introductory juan in three vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers with orig. title slips, orig. stitching (a little loose). [China]: 1908.
A lead movable type edition of this important Qing legal code for southern Xinjiang, a vast territory. “The Imperially Authorized Substatutes and Precedents of the Muslim Regions was the main legal basis for the handling of ethnic affairs in southern Xinjiang before the establishment of Xinjiang as a province” (Long Qun 龍群 and Wu xiuju, “Shixi Huijiang zeli de bianzuan yu xiuding” 吳秀菊, 試析《回疆則例》的編纂與修訂, Heilongjiang minzu congkan 2013, no. 4: 100).
The background to the... More