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True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China

Author : Robert E. Hegel
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295800151
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Book Synopsis True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China by : Robert E. Hegel

Download or read book True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China written by Robert E. Hegel and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 discovery, the appearance of the crime scene and the body, the apparent cause of death, speculation about motives and premeditation, and whether self-defense was involved. Detailed testimony is included from the accused and from witnesses, family members, and neighbors, as well as summaries and opinions from local magistrates, their coroners, and other officials higher up the chain of judicial review. Officials explain which law in the Qing dynasty legal code was violated, which corresponding punishment was appropriate, and whether the sentence was eligible for reduction. These records began as reports from magistrates on homicide cases within their jurisdiction that were required by law to be tried first at the county level, then reviewed by judicial officials at the prefectural, provincial, and national levels, with each administrator adding his own observations to the file. Each case was decided finally in Beijing, in the name of the emperor if not by the monarch himself, before sentences could be carried out and the records permanently filed. All of the cases translated here are from the Qing imperial copies, most of which are now housed in the First Historical Archives, Beijing.

Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China

Author : Mark McNicholas
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295806230
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China written by Mark McNicholas and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across eighteenth-century China a wide range of common people forged government documents or pretended to be officials or other agents of the state. This examination of case records and law codes traces the legal meanings and social and political contexts of small-time swindles that were punished as grave political transgressions.

Powerful Arguments

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004423621
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Powerful Arguments written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Powerful Arguments reconstruct the standards of validity underlying argumentative practices in a wide array of late imperial Chinese discourses, ranging from historiography, philosophy, law and religion to natural studies, literature, and the civil examination system.

Wrongful Deaths

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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295804963
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Wrongful Deaths written by and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents and analyzes inquest records that tell the stories of ordinary Korean people under the Choson court (1392-1910). Extending the study of this period, usually limited to elites, into the realm of everyday life, each inquest record includes a detailed postmortem examination and features testimony from everyone directly or indirectly related to the incident. The result is an amazingly vivid, colloquial account of the vibrant, multifaceted sociocultural and legal culture of early modern Korea.

Imperial China, 1350–1900

Author : Jonathan Porter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 144222293X
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Imperial China, 1350–1900 written by Jonathan Porter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clear and engaging book provides a concise overview of the Ming-Qing epoch (1368–1912), China’s last imperial age. Beginning with the end of the Mongol domination of China in 1368, this five-century period was remarkable for its continuity and stability until its downfall in the Revolution of 1911. Viewing the Ming and Qing dynasties as a coherent era characterized by the fruition of diverse developments from earliest times, Jonathan Porter traces the growth of imperial autocracy, the role of the educated Confucian elite as custodians of cultural authority, the significance of ritual as the grounding of political and social order, the tension between monarchy and bureaucracy in political discourse, the evolution of Chinese cultural identity, and the perception of the “barbarian” and other views of the world beyond China. As the climax of traditional Chinese history and the harbinger of modern China in the twentieth century, Porter argues that imperial China must be explored for its own sake as well as for the essential foundation it provides in understanding contemporary China, and indeed world history writ large.

A History of World Societies, Volume 2: Since 1450

Author : John P. McKay
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312666934
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book A History of World Societies, Volume 2: Since 1450 written by John P. McKay and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of World Societies introduces students to the global past through social history and the stories and voices of the people who lived it. Now published by Bedford/St. Martin's, and informed by the latest scholarship, the book has been thoroughly revised with students in mind to meet the needs of the evolving course. Proven to work in the classroom, the book’s regional and comparative approach helps students understand the connections of global history while providing a manageable organization. With more global connections and comparisons, more documents, special features and activities that teach historical analysis, and an entirely new look, the ninth edition is the most teachable and accessible edition yet. Test drive a chapter today. Find out how.

A History of World Societies, Combined Volume

Author : John P. McKay
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312666918
Total Pages : 1198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book A History of World Societies, Combined Volume written by John P. McKay and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of World Societies introduces students to the global past through social history and the stories and voices of the people who lived it. The book’s regional and comparative approach helps students understand the connections of global history while providing a manageable organization. With global connections and comparisons, documents, features and activities that teach historical analysis.

Writing and Law in Late Imperial China

Author : Robert E. Hegel
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295997540
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)

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Book Synopsis Writing and Law in Late Imperial China by : Robert E. Hegel

Download or read book Writing and Law in Late Imperial China written by Robert E. Hegel and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating, multidisciplinary volume, scholars of Chinese history, law, literature, and religions explore the intersections of legal practice with writing in many different social contexts. They consider the overlapping concerns of legal culture and the arts of crafting persuasive texts in a range of documents including crime reports, legislation, novels, prayers, and law suits. Their focus is the late Ming and Qing periods (c. 1550-1911); their documents range from plaints filed at the local level by commoners, through various texts produced by the well-to-do, to the legal opinions penned by China's emperors. Writing and Law in Late Imperial China explores works of crime-case fiction, judicial handbooks for magistrates and legal secretaries, popular attitudes toward clergy and merchants as reflected in legal plaints, and the belief in a parallel, otherworldly judicial system that supports earthly justice.

The Cultural Revolution on Trial

Author : Alexander C. Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521761115
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Revolution on Trial written by Alexander C. Cook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Indictment -- Monsters -- Testimony -- Emotions -- Verdict -- Vanity -- Conclusion -- Index of Chinese terms

The Peking Gazette

Author : Lane J. Harris
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004361006
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Peking Gazette written by Lane J. Harris and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Peking Gazette: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Chinese History, Lane J. Harris introduces an extraordinary collection of primary sources covering China’s long nineteenth century (1793-1912) that allows readers to understand how the Manchu emperors and the multiethnic subjects of the Great Qing Empire experienced this tumultuous period.

Chinese Criminal Trials

Author : Ni He
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461482054
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Criminal Trials written by Ni He and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-12 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique empirical study of criminal trials in China. Western observers such as the media, politicians and the legal scholars alike, have rarely had the exposure to the vast majority of the ordinary criminal trials in China. A number of legal reforms have been implemented in Chinese criminal courts in recent years, but there has been little research on whether these reforms have been effective. This book fills that gap, by unveiling the day-to-day reality of criminal cases tried by the lowest level courts in China. The data used in this study include hundreds of criminal trial observations, complete criminal case dossiers, and a comprehensive questionnaire survey of criminal justice practitioners from one large province located in China’s Southeast coast. These data were collected over a two-year period, with a generous research grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, by scholars already working in the Chinese legal system. The work opens with a historical framework of the Chinese criminal justice system, both Western and Chinese interpretations, and an overview of the current state of the system. It will provide unique analysis of how criminal trials are being carried out in China, with a useful context for scholars with varying levels of familiarity with the current system. The research framework for gathering data discussed in this book will also provide a useful basis for studying the criminal justice system in other regions.

China's Changing Legal System

Author : Thomas W. Simon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137452064
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book China's Changing Legal System written by Thomas W. Simon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While much international attention has been focused on China's developing economy, dramatic changes are also taking place in its legal system. This book is a groundbreaking, comprehensive introduction to China's legal system, covering the major areas of both civil and criminal law. The authors present fascinating cases and balanced accounts of controversial issues, from copyright law to punishment. By letting Chinese lawyers and judges speak for themselves, the authors also allow readers a surprisingly candid insider's view of real life legal practice.

A Certain Justice

Author : Haiyan Lee
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226825264
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book A Certain Justice written by Haiyan Lee and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A much-needed account of the hierarchy of justice that defines China’s unique political-legal culture. To many outsiders, China has an image as a realm of Oriental despotism where law is at best window dressing and at worst an instrument of coercion and tyranny. In this highly original contribution to the interdisciplinary field of law and humanities, Haiyan Lee contends that this image arises from a skewed understanding of China’s political-legal culture, particularly the failure to distinguish what she calls high justice and low justice. In the Chinese legal imagination, Lee shows, justice is a vertical concept, with low justice between individuals firmly subordinated to the high justice of the state. China’s political-legal culture is marked by a mistrust of law’s powers, and as a result, it privileges substantive over procedural justice. Calling on a wide array of narratives—stories of crime and punishment, subterfuge and exposé, guilt and redemption—A Certain Justice helps us recognize the fight for justice outside the familiar arenas of liberal democracy and the rule of law.

Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music

Author : Maghiel van Crevel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047441419
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music written by Maghiel van Crevel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-11-27 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together new research on Chinese literature and music by twenty-two scholars, on topics ranging from Tang poetry to women's writing and the internet, this collection pays tribute to Wilt Idema as a leading scholar in a field of tremendous scope and diversity.

Comparative Criminal Justice Systems

Author : Shahid M. Shahidullah
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1449604250
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Criminal Justice Systems written by Shahid M. Shahidullah and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for students of criminal justice, Comparative Criminal Justice Systems: Global and Local Perspectives examines the nature of crime and justice in varying countries and cultures in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Using a topical approach, it compares different systems of crime and justice in terms of their differences from, and similarities to, the laws and institutions of modern criminal justice, focusing on the United States as a standard of comparison. By examining different criminal justice systems in terms of their local peculiarities and understanding their change and continuity, readers will gain a well-rounded international perspective of the world's varying systems of criminal justice. Key Features: -Explores the rise of modern criminology and the criminal justice system in the nineteenth century. It is critical for students to understand the history of modern systems to fully comprehend the varying nature of today's main legal systems, focusing on the United States as a standard of comparison. -Employs a topical approach to examine the criminal justice systems in varying countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, including comparative views on law enforcement, judicial systems, corrections, due process of law, and search and seizures. -Includes discussions on comparative processes of criminalization and decriminalization on such issues as domestic violence, child abuse, homosexuality, and sexual harassment. -Discusses new global crimes and their impact on modern and traditional criminal justice systems, including human smuggling, global sex trade, global illegal drug trade, illegal trafficking of conventional military weapons, money laundering, cybercrime, and global terrorism. -Discussion questions ensure that student's grasp the core theoretical concepts.

Heaven Has Eyes

Author : Xiaoqun Xu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190060050
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Heaven Has Eyes written by Xiaoqun Xu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heaven Has Eyes is a comprehensive but concise history of Chinese law and justice from the imperial era to the post-Mao era. Never before has a single book treated the traditional Chinese law and judicial practices and their modern counterparts as a coherent history, addressing both criminal and civil justice. This book fills this void. Xiaoqun Xu addresses the evolution and function of law codes and judicial practices throughout China's long history, and examines the transition from traditional laws and practices to modern ones in the twentieth century. To the Chinese of the imperial era, justice was an alignment of heavenly reason (tianli), state law (guofa), and human relations (renqing). Such a conception did not change until the turn of the twentieth century, when Western-derived notions-natural rights, legal equality, the rule of law, judicial independence, and due process--came to replace the Confucian moral code of right and wrong. The legal-judicial reform agendas that emerged in the beginning of the twentieth century (and are still ongoing today) stemmed from this change in Chinese moral and legal thinking, but to materialize the said principles in everyday practices is a very different order of things, and the past century was fraught with legal dramas and tragedies. Heaven Has Eyes lays out how and why that is the case.

Law and Policy for China's Market Socialism

Author : John Garrick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136345019
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Law and Policy for China's Market Socialism written by John Garrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume presents fresh empirical research on the emerging outcomes of China’s law reforms. The chapters examine China’s ‘going out’ policy by addressing the ways in which the underpinning legal reforms enable China to pursue its core interests and broad international responsibilities as a rising power. The contributors consider China’s civil and commercial law reforms against the economic backdrop of an outflow of Chinese capital into strategic assets outside her own borders. This movement of capital has become an intriguing phenomenon for both ongoing economic reform and its largely unheralded underpinning law reforms. The contributors ask probing questions about doing business with China and highlight the astonishing escalation of China’s outbound foreign direct investment (OFDI). Law and Policy for China's Market Socialism includes contributions from leading China-law scholars and specialist practitioners from the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries who all extend the examination of powerful influences on China’s law reforms into new areas. Given the forecast for the growth of China’s domestic market, those wishing to gain a better understanding and seeking success in the world's most dynamic marketplace will benefit greatly from reading this book. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in Chinese economics and business, Chinese Law, Chinese politics and commercial law.