Criminal Justice in China : : A History / / Klaus Mühlhahn.
In a groundbreaking work, Klaus Mühlhahn offers a comprehensive examination of the criminal justice system in modern China, an institution deeply rooted in politics, society, and culture. In late imperial China, flogging, tattooing, torture, and servitude were routine punishments. Sentences, includi...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 THE RIGHT DEGREE OF PAIN Imperial China
- 2 THE PRISON REGIME Republican China
- 3 TRIALS OF TERROR War and Revolution
- 4 REFORM THROUGH LA BOR The Communist State
- CONCLUSION
- ABBREVIATI ONS
- ARCHIVES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- Index