Books in the Princeton Legacy Library series

This is the second and final volume of the annotated translation of a seminal Chinese legal text. The T'ang Code, written in 653 A.D., is the most important legal text in East Asian history. Not only is it China's earliest law code to survive in its entirety, influencing all subsequent Chinese law, but it has also served as a model for codes of law

Since the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920, Mexico's rebellious peasant has become a subject not only of history but of literature, film, and paintings. With his sombrero, his machete, and his rifle, he marches or rides through countless Hollywood or Mexican films, killing brutal overseers, hacienda owners, corrupt officials, and federal soldiers. S

Reinvestigates medical writings and cultural performance to reveal the continued relevance of a disorder thought to be a romantic formulation of the past. Through a critical rereading, this book develops a concept of hysteria, one that challenges traditional gender-based theories linking it to dissatisfied feminine sexual desire.