True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China: Twenty Case Histories

by Robert E. Hegel

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295989076
• ISBN13: 9780295989075
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

so excited

this book is for a research paper I'm going to be writing for a class, and it is all about crime in Imperial China. it is incredibly detailed and interesting, I definitely recommend if you are interested in crime and Imperial China. A similar book is "Law in Imperial China: Exemplified by 190 Ch'ing Dynasty Cases" by Derk Bodde and Clarence Morris, I will also be using that book for my paper. Both are primary sources.