Name Noboru Niida Died June 22, 1966 | Education University of Tokyo | |
Noboru Niida (仁井田陞, Niida Noboru, January 1, 1904-June 22, 1966) was a Japanese academic, historian of Chinese legal history and Professor Emeritus of Oriental Laws at the University of Tokyo (Todai).
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Biography
In 1925, Niida began his studies at the University of Tokyo, where he would eventually be awarded his doctorate. 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 Chinese legal System (中國法制史, Chūgoku hōsei shi) 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/WorldCat encompasses roughly 100+ works in 200+ publications in 5 languages and 900+ library holdings.