True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China - Twenty Case Histories

Informationen zum Autor Robert E. Hegel is Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature and professor of Chinese, Washington University, St. Louis. Klappentext Robert E. Hegel is Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature and professor of Chinese, Washington University, St. Louis. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments Translator's Notes Introduction Part I Judicial Procedures Case 1: Xu Si: A Scuffle over a Debt (Jiangsu, 1792) Case 2: Li Huaiyu: The Missing Brother (Hunan, 1736) Case 3: Ms. Guo: Accidental Homicide Concealed (Zhili, 1794) Case 4: Li Cang: Blackmail and Arsenic (Shanxi, 1803) Case 5: Cao Ligong: Attempted Rape That Led to Murder (Zhili, 1803) Part II Interrogation Techniques Case 6: Du Huailiang: Adultery That Brought Disaster (Shandong, 1696) Case 7: Rui Meisheng: Manslaughter over an Outhouse (Anhui, 1722) Case 8: Jia Mingyuan: Accidental Homicide (Fengtian, 1796) Part III Intent and Premeditated Violence Case 9: Luo Zhongyi: Kidnapping (Guangdong, 1728) Case 10: Wang Azhen: Murder for Extortion (Guangdong, 1779) Part IV The Failure of "Confucian" Family Values 122 Case 11: Li Er and Li San: Two Pecks of Beans (Fengtian, 1738) Case 12: The Hong Brothers: A Quarrel over Manure (Hunan, 1738) Case 13: Ms. Wang: Incest and Violent Homicide (Jilin, 1738) Case 14: Ms. Ma: Disguised Poisoning (Shandong, 1795) Part V Control of Politically Marginal Groups and Individuals Case 15: A Village Vendetta and Han Intercession (Guangxi, 1728) Case 16: Rebellious Religious Sectarians (North China,1791-1814) Case 17: Ji Yanghua: Secret Society Member (Shanxi, 1814) Part VI Social Mobility and Crime Case 18: Jin San: A Spurned Lover (Sichuan, 1728) Case 19: Luo Fenpeng: A Phony Scholar-Official (Jiangxi, 1763) Part VII Imperial Intervention Case 20: Li Yuchang: A Magistrate Murdered for His Integrity (Jiangsu, 1809) Appendix 1. Banners and Other Social Organizations Appendix 2. Popular Religious Movements Appendix 3. Cases Listed by Social Conflict Chinese Character Glossary Bibliography of Studies in English Index ...

List of contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Translator's Notes

Introduction

Part I Judicial Procedures

Case 1: Xu Si: A Scuffle over a Debt (Jiangsu, 1792)

Case 2: Li Huaiyu: The Missing Brother (Hunan, 1736)

Case 3: Ms. Guo: Accidental Homicide Concealed (Zhili, 1794)

Case 4: Li Cang: Blackmail and Arsenic (Shanxi, 1803)

Case 5: Cao Ligong: Attempted Rape That Led to Murder (Zhili, 1803)

Part II Interrogation Techniques

Case 6: Du Huailiang: Adultery That Brought Disaster (Shandong, 1696)

Case 7: Rui Meisheng: Manslaughter over an Outhouse (Anhui, 1722)

Case 8: Jia Mingyuan: Accidental Homicide (Fengtian, 1796)

Part III Intent and Premeditated Violence

Case 9: Luo Zhongyi: Kidnapping (Guangdong, 1728)

Case 10: Wang Azhen: Murder for Extortion (Guangdong, 1779)

Part IV The Failure of "Confucian" Family Values 122

Case 11: Li Er and Li San: Two Pecks of Beans (Fengtian, 1738)

Case 12: The Hong Brothers: A Quarrel over Manure (Hunan, 1738)

Case 13: Ms. Wang: Incest and Violent Homicide (Jilin, 1738)

Case 14: Ms. Ma: Disguised Poisoning (Shandong, 1795)

Part V Control of Politically Marginal Groups and Individuals

Case 15: A Village Vendetta and Han Intercession (Guangxi, 1728)

Case 16: Rebellious Religious Sectarians (North China,1791-1814)

Case 17: Ji Yanghua: Secret Society Member (Shanxi, 1814)

Part VI Social Mobility and Crime

Case 18: Jin San: A Spurned Lover (Sichuan, 1728)

Case 19: Luo Fenpeng: A Phony Scholar-Official (Jiangxi, 1763)

Part VII Imperial Intervention

Case 20: Li Yuchang: A Magistrate Murdered for His Integrity (Jiangsu, 1809)

Appendix 1. Banners and Other Social Organizations

Appendix 2. Popular Religious Movements

Appendix 3. Cases Listed by Social Conflict

Chinese Character Glossary

Bibliography of Studies in English

Index

About the author

Robert E. Hegel is Liselotte Dieckmann Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Professor of Chinese at Washington University. He is the author of The Novel in Seventeenth-Century China (Columbia University Press, 1981); translator of True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China: Twenty Case Histories (University of Washington Press, 2009); and editor of Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection by Aina the Layman (University of Washington Press, 2017).

Product details

• Authors: Robert E Hegel, Robert E. Hegel
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.04.2009
• EAN: 9780295989075
• ISBN: 978-0-295-98907-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Asian Law; Asian Law Series; Asian Law Series; Asian Law
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries