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True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China: Twenty Case Histories - True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China
Robert E. Hegel
True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China: Twenty Case Histories - True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China
Robert E. Hegel
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.
312 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | April 16, 2009 |
ISBN13 | 9780295989068 |
Publishers | University of Washington Press |
Genre | Cultural Region > Chinese |
Pages | 312 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 21 mm · 590 g |
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