In this book, under the historical-educational perspective, a group of teaching materials of Pre-Qin was certainly taught. e content of the teaching materials of Pre-Han was varied including legal documents, literacy, mathematics and ethical documents and so on.
The basic tone of the education system of Pre-Han changed into learning Law as the propriety educational target. Legalist school played the key role for educational policies making, determined who to learn, what to learn, and how to learn. e guiding educational policies made by legalist’s school were: “Burning the Shi 《詩》and the Shu 《書》to clarify the Law” and “Official as teacher”. e educational policy developed a huge impact for the education system in ancient China.
文題很特別，極具挑戰性。就教材史而言，一般學者的選題多以近代為主，因為史料較為集中，文本亦較易處理。本文則以先秦出土文獻為主，課題涉及法律學、歷史學、考古學、教育學、文字學、數學等廣泛領域。大部分文本都只有中文文本，而本論文卻以英文撰寫，其難度之大與涉及層面之廣，當不言而喻。二位作者將種種困難一一克服，完成對秦國法律教材的詳細分析，填補了這段教育史研究的空白，實屬難能可貴。
──劉海峰（浙江大學文科資深教授、長江學者特聘教授、浙江大學科舉學與考試研究中心主任、廈門大學考試研究中心主任）