Criminal Intent And Homicide Law In Qing And Republican China
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A Question Of Intent
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Author : Jennifer M. Neighbors
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-04-17
A Question Of Intent written by Jennifer M. Neighbors and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-17 with Law categories.
In A Question of Intent, Jennifer M. Neighbors unpacks the complicated late imperial homicide continuum and its Republican-era counterpart, revealing a Chinese justice system, both before and after 1911, that defies assignment to binary categories of modern and pre-modern law.
Death In Beijing
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Author : Daniel Asen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-07-28
Death In Beijing written by Daniel Asen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-28 with History categories.
An innovative exploration of China's modern transformation through the history of homicide investigation and forensic science in Republican Beijing. Daniel Asen examines the process through which imperial China's tradition of forensic science came to serve the needs of a changing state and society under dramatically new circumstances.
Criminal Intent And Homicide Law In Qing And Republican China
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Author : Jennifer Michelle Neighbors
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Criminal Intent And Homicide Law In Qing And Republican China written by Jennifer Michelle Neighbors and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Criminal intent categories.
Legal Transplantation In Early Twentieth Century China
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Author : Michael H. K. Ng
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-05-23
Legal Transplantation In Early Twentieth Century China written by Michael H. K. Ng and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-23 with History categories.
"Practicing law" has a dual meaning in this book. It refers to both the occupational practice of law and the practicing of transplanted laws and institutions to perfect them. The book constitutes the first monographic work on the legal history of Republican Beijing, and provides an in-depth and comprehensive account of the practice of law in the city of Beijing during a period of social transformation. Drawing upon unprecedented research using archived records and other primary materials, it explores the problems encountered by Republican Beijing’s legal practitioners, including lawyers, policemen, judges and criminologists, in applying transplanted laws and legal institutions when they were inapplicable to, incompatible with, or inadequate for resolving everyday legal issues. These legal practitioners resolved the mismatch, the author argues, by quite sensibly assimilating certain imperial laws and customs and traditional legal practices into the daily routines of the recently imported legal institutions. Such efforts by indigenous legal practitioners were crucial in, and an integral part of, the making of legal transplantation in Republican Beijing. This work not only makes significant contributions to scholarship on the legal history of modern China, but also offers insights into China’s quest for modernization in its first wave of legal globalization. It is thus of great value to legal historians, comparative legal scholars, specialists in Chinese law and China studies, and lawyers and law students with an interest in Chinese legal history.
Polyandry And Wife Selling In Qing Dynasty China
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Author : Matthew H. Sommer
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2015-09-15
Polyandry And Wife Selling In Qing Dynasty China written by Matthew H. Sommer and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-15 with History categories.
This book is a study of polyandry, wife-selling, and a variety of related practices in China during the Qing dynasty (1644-1912). By analyzing over 1200 legal cases from local and central court archives, Matthew Sommer explores the functions played by marriage, sex, and reproduction in the survival strategies of the rural poor under conditions of overpopulation, worsening sex ratios, and shrinking farm sizes. Polyandry and wife-selling represented opposite ends of a spectrum of strategies. At one end, polyandry was a means to keep the family together by expanding it. A woman would bring in a second husband in exchange for his help supporting her family. In contrast, wife sale was a means to survive by breaking up a family: a husband would secure an emergency infusion of cash while his wife would escape poverty and secure a fresh start with another man. Even though Qing law prohibited both practices under the rubric "illicit sexual relations," Sommer shows how magistrates charged with propagating and enforcing a fundamentalist Confucian vision of female chastity tried to cope with their social reality in the face of daunting poverty. This contradiction illuminates both the pragmatism of routine adjudication and the increasingly dysfunctional nature of the dynastic state in the face of mounting social crisis. By casting a spotlight on the rural poor and the experiences of both men and women, Sommer provides an alternative to the standard paradigms of women’s history that have long dominated scholarship on gender and sexuality in late imperial China.
The Making Of The Human Sciences In China
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Author : Howard Chiang
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-05-07
The Making Of The Human Sciences In China written by Howard Chiang and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-07 with History categories.
This volume provides a history of how “the human” has been constituted as a subject of scientific inquiry in China from the seventeenth century to the present.
The Peking Gazette
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Author : Lane J. Harris
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-05-07
The Peking Gazette written by Lane J. Harris and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-07 with History categories.
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.
Criminal Justice In China
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Author : Klaus Mu_hlhahn
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-04-30
Criminal Justice In China written by Klaus Mu_hlhahn and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-30 with Law categories.
In a groundbreaking work, Klaus Muhlhahn offers a comprehensive examination of the criminal justice system in modern China, an institution deeply rooted in politics, society, and culture. In late imperial China, flogging, tattooing, torture, and servitude were routine punishments. Sentences, including executions, were generally carried out in public. After 1905, in a drive to build a strong state and curtail pressure from the West, Chinese officials initiated major legal reforms. Physical punishments were replaced by fines and imprisonment. Capital punishment, though removed from the public sphere, remained in force for the worst crimes. Trials no longer relied on confessions obtained through torture but were instead held in open court and based on evidence. Prison reform became the centerpiece of an ambitious social-improvement program. After 1949, the Chinese communists developed their own definitions of criminality and new forms of punishment. People's tribunals were convened before large crowds, which often participated in the proceedings. At the center of the socialist system was reform through labor, and thousands of camps administered prison sentences. Eventually, the communist leadership used the camps to detain anyone who offended against the new society, and the crime of counterrevolution was born. Muhlhahn reveals the broad contours of criminal justice from late imperial China to the Deng reform era and details the underlying values, successes and failures, and ultimate human costs of the system. Based on unprecedented research in Chinese archives and incorporating prisoner testimonies, witness reports, and interviews, this book is essential reading for understanding modern China.
Research From Archival Case Records
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Author : Philip C.C. Huang
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2014-04-30
Research From Archival Case Records written by Philip C.C. Huang and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-30 with History categories.
Legal history studies have often focused mainly on codified law, without attention to actual practice, and on the past, without relating it to the present. As the title—Research from Archival Case Records: Law, Society, and Culture in China—of this book suggests, the authors deliberately follow the research method of starting from court actions and only on that basis engage in discussions of laws and legal concepts and theory. The articles cover a range of topics and source materials, both past and present. They provide some surprising findings—about disjunctures between code and practice, adjustments between them, and how those reveal operative principles and logics different from what the legal texts alone might suggest. Contributors are: Kathryn Bernhardt, Danny Hsu, Philip C. C. Huang, Christopher Isett, Yasuhiko Karasawa, Margaret Kuo, Huaiyin Li, Jennifer M. Neighbors, Bradly W. Reed, Matthew H. Sommer, Huey Bin Teng, Lisa Tran, Elizabeth VanderVen, and Chenjun You.
Powerful Arguments
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-03-02
Powerful Arguments written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-02 with History categories.
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.