The Judgment (pan 判) as a Genre of LiteratureFollowing a brief discussion of my disqualifications as a scholar of Chinese law I will discuss the “judgment (pan 判)” as a genre of literature. My starting point will be the negative assessment of the genre by Arthur Waley in his The Life and Times of Po Chü-i (1949). Basing myself on the growing body of recent Chinese scholarship on the genre, I will try to show that Waley’s characterization of the genre is not so much based on the judgments by ...