2009.1106
The Largest International Symposium Held 10 Years After the Discovery of Tiansheng Decree
Hosted by the Department of History, NTNU, the Chinese Legal Studies Association, and the Tang Dynasty Laws Studies Association, a international symposium on Tiansheng Decree of the Northern Sung Dynasty was held on November 6th and 7th at the Conference Hall in the Union Building, NTNU. Nearly 280 historians and professionals from home and abroad attended the symposium, including Dai Jian-Guo, Professor of Shanghai Normal University who first discovered the Tiansheng Decree in1998. Decrees of Tang and Song Dynasties failed to pass down to later generations; only laws are still available for study.