Law, justice and codification in Qing China
Subtitle: European and Chinese perspectives : essays in history and comparative law
By: edited by Guido Abbattista
Publisher: EUT
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Trieste
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9788883038426
Subjects: Law; History; Administration of Justice; Codification
Notes: Collected essays.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: General introduction  -- Guido Abbattista; title: Chinese law and justice: George Thomas Staunton (1781-1859) and the European discourses on China in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries  -- Guido Abbattista; title: Nineteenth-century Western perspectives on Chinese justice: an analysis of The Chinese Repository (1832-1851) and The China Review (1872-1901)  -- Li Xiuqing; title: The Great Qing Code in comparative and historical perspective  -- Zhang Lihong, -- Dong Neng; title: Of old and new codes: Chinese law in the mirror of Western laws  -- Marina Timoteo; title: The cruel imagination: Oriental tortures from a future past in Albert Robida's illustrations for La Guerre infernale (1908) -- Giulia Iannuzzi.