Law in Imperial China: Exemplified by 190 Ch'ing Dynasty Cases

80 blows accusation affray analogy Anhui assizes beating Board finds Board of Punishments cangue capital capital punishment Ch'en Ch'ing Code Chang Chap China Chinese law cited Commentary commit suicide concubine Confucian Conspectus crime criminal death by slicing decapitation defendant degree less degree of mourning Department distance of 3,000 dynasty emperor execution fact governor governor-general guilty Han dynasty heavy bamboo homicide hsien hsing Hsing-an hui-lan Hsü husband immediate decapitation imperial injury judicial junior relative Kiangsu killing Manchu Memorandum memorialized concerning ment military exile Ming monetary redemption offense official original ounces of silver parents Peking penal servitude penalty person premeditated prison provides province Provincial Court reduced relationship Reported in HAHL result senior relative sentenced to 100 Shantung shih slave statute Boulais statutory punishment Statutory References Staunton strangulation sub-statute Boulais T'ang tenced theft thereby three years penal tion translated victim Wang wife wrongdoer