c. 206 BC–c. 220 AD
Han legal administration
Law & constitutions · Administración, procedimiento y codificación
The Han state inherited and modified Qin legal institutions, combining written statutes, administrative hierarchies, and Confucian languages. The process was prolonged and regionally uneven, not an immediate replacement of one legal model by another.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · approximate
- End
- year · approximate
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
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Sources
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Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
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- 2026-09-23
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