A question of intent : homicide law and criminal justice in Qing and Republican China
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A question of intent : homicide law and criminal justice in Qing and Republican China
(The social sciences of practice : the history and theory of legal practice, v. 5)
Brill, c2018
- : hardback
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  Iwate
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  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p.[243]-255) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In A Question of Intent: Homicide Law and Criminal Justice in Qing and Republican China, Jennifer M. Neighbors uses legal cases from the local, provincial and central levels to explore both the complexity with which Qing law addressed abstract concepts and the process of adoption, adaptation, and resistance as late imperial law gave way to criminal law of the Republican period. This study reveals a Chinese justice system, both before and after 1911, that defies assignment to binary categories of modern and pre-modern law that have influenced much of past scholarship.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 From Guoshi Killing to Killing at Play: The Low End of the Intent Continuum
2 The Marriage of Concept and Circumstance: Killing in an Affray and the Intent to Harm
3 Murder, Mercy, and Mens Rea: Intentional Homicide in the Qing Dynasty
4 Limited Options: Intentional Homicide in Republican China
5 Continuities in Court: The Recreation of Qing Rulings in Republican Courts
6 Damages: Changing Notions of Reparations and Harm in Homicide and Injury Law
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Main Homicide Categories and Their Punishments
Appendix 2: Standard Qing Dynasty Punishment Provisions
Character List
References
Index
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