Pis'mennye pamiatniki VostokaPis'mennye pamiatniki Vostoka1811-8062Eco-Vector5505610.17816/WMO55056Research ArticleCarrying out of Punishments Under the T’ang Dynasty Criminal LawRybakovViacheslav M.<p>Dr. Sci. (History), Leading Researcher of the Department of Far Eastern Studies, IOM RAS</p>ouyangtsev@mail.ruInstitute of Oriental Manuscripts RAS2912202017452651412202017122020Copyright © 2021, Rybakov V.2021<p>Every legal system includes, as one of its main elements, a system of the implementation of sentences issued by the courts. However, the administration of punishments is always connected with violence against people, and sometimes even with their execution. The extent to which such violence was restricted so as to be acceptable to the collective sense of justice is an eloquent characteristic of the very concepts of justice inherent in culture as a whole. This article uses the example of the Chinese Tang dynasty criminal law to analyze what restrictions were provided by the traditional Chinese law for state violence against convicted criminals, and what penalties for government employees, who violated those restrictions.</p>traditional Chinastate and lawcriminal lawthe T’ang dynastyтрадиционный Китайгосударство и правоуголовное праводинастия Тан[Bol’shoi kitaisko-russkii slovar’. V 4 t. [Comprehensive Chinese-Russian Dictionary. In 4 vols]. Ed. by I.M. Oshanin. Moscow: Nauka, Glavnaia redaktsiia vostochnoi literatury, 1983–1984 (in Chinese and Russian).][Krol’ Iu.L., Romanovskii B.V. “Opyt sistematizatsii traditsionnoi kitaiskoi metrologii” [The Experience of Systematization of Traditional Chinese Metrology]. Strany i narody Vostoka. Vyp. XXIII: Dal’nii Vostok (Istoriia, etnografiia, kul’tura) [Countries and Peoples of the East. Issue XXIII: the Far East (History, Ethnography, Сulture)]. Moscow, 1982 (in Russian).][Rybakov V.M. Tanskaia biurokratiia. Chast 2: Pravovoie samoregulirovanie [The T’ang Bureaucracy. Part 2: Legal Self-regulation.]. Vol. 1. St. Petersburg: Izdatel’stvo “Peterburgskoe Vostokovedenie”, 2013 (in Russian).][Ugolovnye ustanovleniia Tan s raz’iasneniiami (Tan liui shu i) [The T’ang Criminal Norms with Explanations]. Per., vved. i komment. V.M. Rybakova. Tsziuani 26–30. St. Petersburg: Peterburgskoe Vostokovedenie, 2008 (in Russian).][Tsybul’skii V.V. Lunno-solnechnyi kalendar’ stran Vostochnoi Azii [Lunar and Solar Calendars of East Asian Countries]. Moscow: Nauka, 1987 (in Russian).][Niida Noboru 仁井田陞. To re siu i 唐令拾遺 [A Collection of the Táng Dynasty Regulations]. Tokio, 1964 (in Japanese and Chinese).][Tan liu dian’ 唐六典 [Six Codes of the Tang Dynasty]. URL: http://gsgy.fudan.edu.cn/daodu /tangliudian_content.htm (in Chinese).][Tan liui shu i 唐律疏議 [T’ang Dynasty Criminal Code with Explanations]. C’ongshu jicheng 叢書集成, t. 775–780. Shankhai, 1936–1939 (in Chinese).][The T’ang Code. Vol. II: Specific Articles. Transl. with an introd. by Wallace Johnson. Princeton, 1997 (in English).]