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True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China: Twenty Case Histories (Asian Law Series)
True Crimes in EighteenthCentury China Twenty Case Histories - Asian Law Series
Author: Robert E. Hegel
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 inform...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780295989075
ISBN-10: 0295989076
Publication Date: 4/30/2009
Pages: 285
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Publisher: University of Washington Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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