Published on 23 February 2026
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Panorama of the Chinese legal collections of the Chinese Studies Library

Since the late 1920s, the collection of primary sources in this field has been one of the priorities of the Collège de France's Chinese Studies Library. The legal collections held there fall into six categories, covering not only codes and legal institutions as such, as well as doctrinal works, but also reference manuals from judicial practice.

Schéma ancien d'acupuncture avec points et méridiens annotés en chinois
The illustration in the 1864 edition of Recueil de preuves pour laver les injustices shows the method of examining a corpse from the front of the body, and indicates precisely which wounds are likely to be fatal (Song Ci, fukan jiansi tu, juan liuzhong, file number F XIII 51-5 (5))