The Lǐyē 里耶 text corpus, which is named after an ancient township in present-day L ngshān 龍山, H n n province, grants unique opportunities to reshape the image and redefine our knowledge about social, legal, political, administrative and ritual responsibilities of the first Chinese empire. The impressive collection of over 37,000 documents span a time period from 222 to 208 BC and grant a unique opportunity...