This book is a richly textured social and cultural study exploring the profound effects and lasting repercussions of superimposing Western-derived models of rep

Translation of an ancient Chinese manual on juriprudence, including details of many trials and judgments for crimes both high and petty.

Across eighteenth-century China a wide range of common people forged government documents or pretended to be officials or other agents of the state. This examin

In a groundbreaking work, Klaus Muhlhahn offers a comprehensive examination of the criminal justice system in modern China, an institution deeply rooted in poli