True Crimes In Eighteenth-Century China
Twenty Case Histories
University Of Washington Press (United States), 2009
Hardback, 312 pages
ISBN: 9780295989068
ISBN-10: 0295989068
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True Crimes In Eighteenth-Century China
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.
