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Comparison Between Chinese and Western Legal Concepts: Law Following Nature and Natural Law

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A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Legal Language and Culture

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The Chinese legal culture system has a long history, and the internal spirit that underpins this system is the legal philosophical view of the Taoist’s thought “law following nature”

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Zhang, F. (2021). Comparison Between Chinese and Western Legal Concepts: Law Following Nature and Natural Law. In: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Legal Language and Culture. Peking University Linguistics Research, vol 4. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9347-5_5

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