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Title True crimes in eighteenth-century China : twenty case histories / compiled and translated by Robert E. Hegel ; with contributions by Maram Epstein, Mark McNicholas, and Joanna Waley-Cohen
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 285 pages)
Series Asian law series ; no. 20
Asian law series ; no. 20.
Contents Judicial procedures -- Interrogation techniques -- Intent and premeditated violence -- Failure of "Confucian" family values -- Control of politically marginal groups and individuals -- Social mobility and crime -- Imperial intervention
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-277) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Trials -- China
Criminal investigation -- China -- History -- Sources
Criminal justice, Administration of -- China -- History -- Sources
Crime -- China -- History -- Sources
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Asian -- General.
Crime
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice, Administration of
Trials
Kriminalität
Strafverfahren
China
China
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Hegel, Robert E., 1943-
Epstein, Maram
McNicholas, Mark
Waley-Cohen, Joanna
LC no. 2021694612
ISBN 9780295800158
0295800151