True crimes in eighteenth-century China
Subtitle: twenty case histories
By: compiled and translated by Robert E. Hegel ; with contributions by Maram Epstein, Mark McNicholas, and Joanna Waley-Cohen.
Contributors: Epstein, Maram.; McNicholas, Mark.; Waley-Cohen, Joanna.
Series: Asian law series -- no 20
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780295989068; 9780295989075
Subjects: Criminal law -- China -- History; Criminal law -- China -- History -- Cases; Criminal intent -- China -- History; Crime -- China -- History
Genres: Cases.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Judicial procedures; title: Interrogation techniques; title: Intent and premeditated violence; title: Failure of "Confucian" family values; title: Control of politically marginal groups and individuals; title: Social mobility and crime; title: Imperial intervention.