[PDF.06mt] True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China: Twenty Case Histories (Asian Law Series)

True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China: Twenty Case Histories (Asian Law Series)

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 | #1396312 in Books |  2009-03-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.69 x5.98l,.92 | File type: PDF | 312 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By connie|you can get a lot out of this book!|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Jhana Lee Si Hui|Very good read into ancient China crimes cases.|2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| These true stories, from Chinese archives, show how justice was| |"[T]he material translated . . . consists essentially of initial depositions in the case . . . In this lies their unique value in offering, as does no other source, contemporary accounts of ordinary life . . ."―Geoffrey MacCormack, Journal of the Economic

The little-examined genre of legal case narratives is represented in this fascinating volume, the first collection translated into English of criminal cases - most involving homicide - from late imperial China. These true stories of crimes of passion, family conflict, neighborhood feuds, gang violence, and sedition are a treasure trove of information about social relations and legal procedure.

Each narrative describes circumstances leading up to a crime and its di...

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