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 academic, historian of Chinese legal history and Professor Emeritus of Oriental Laws at the University of Tokyo

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University of Tokyo

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Early life

In 1925, Niida began his studies at the University of Tokyo. His doctorate was awarded at Todai.

Career

Niida was a professor and legal history scholar at the University of Tokyo. Among the students he influenced was Denis Twitchett, who studied with him in Tokyo in 1953-54.

He is known for having written which has been the subject of a multi-year process of translation into English.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Naboru Niida, OCLC

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 encompasses roughly 100+ works in 200+ publications in 5 languages and 900+ library holdings.

• 唐令拾遺 (1933)
• 中國の社會とギルド (1951)
• 中國の農村家族 (1952)
• 中國農村慣行調 (1952)
• 中國法制史 (1952)
• 中国の法と社會と歷史: 遺稿集 (1966)
• 中国の伝統と革命: 仁井田陞集 (1974)

Honors

• Imperial Academy, Imperial Prize
  Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy
  The was a prestigious honor conferred by the Imperial Academy from 1911 through 1945. The award was presented to non-members in recognition of their academic theses, books, and achievements....
  
  , 1934 for A Reconstruction of the Administrative and Civil Code of the Tang Dynasty