True Crimes in Eighteenth-century China: Twenty Case Histories (Asian Law Series): 20

by RobertE.Hegel (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $49.92

  Represents the genre of legal case narratives - most involving homicide - from late imperial China. This book includes testimony 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.