Compiled in the 13th century, the T\'ang-Yin-Pi-Shih is a record of 144 criminal and civil court cases judged in the courts of Ancient China, spanning some 1,400 years of the country\'s history, commencing about 300 BC.
During this period, China\'s judiciary was chosen from among the ranks of the country\'s scholar-officials, who, dispatched to various parts of the Empire often with little or no prior training in the legal arts, fulfilled the role of both investigative detective and court judge i.
Compiled in the 13th century, the T\'ang-Yin-Pi-Shih is a record of 144 criminal and civil court cases judged in the courts of Ancient China, spanning some 1,400 years of the country\'s history, commencing about 300 BC