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The study of the legal institutions of the Qin and former Han was long hampered by a lack of comprehensive and reliable contemporary sources, so that research was limited either to the collection of fragments of legal knowledge scattered in the works of such contemporary writers as L Buwei and Sima Qian , or to the reinterpretation of glimpses in the annotations of Later Han scholars such as Wei Hong or Zheng Xuan . Although these latter had a profound understanding of legal institutions, nevertheless they lacked any sensibility regarding historical changes in the structure and function of legal institutions or of the social relations sustaining them.1 1 Comprehensive collection of "remnants" of mainly Han Law from transmitted literature started already in the late Qing with Xue Yunsheng's (1820-1901), Hanl jicun bu fen juan (Collection of Kansai University. Place and date of print unknown. According to the introduction of Shen Jiaben (1912), compiled between the Tongzhi and Guangxu era and afterwards lost), or Du Guichi , Hanl jizheng liu juan (Jingshi (Beijing):
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