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Chinese Legal Practices
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Price: |
9.99 |
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Title: |
The Quality of Mercy, Amnesties and Traditional Chinese Justice |
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Author: |
Brian E. McKnight |
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ISBN: |
0-8248-0736-7 |
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Description: |
1981 - Hardcover - University Press of Hawaii - 172 pages |
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Condition: |
Clean and tight with minimal skew to spine and foxing on outer page edges,
moderate amount of dustjacket edge wear, flaps intact, mild scratch or two |
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Summary: |
"This well-written, original study... holds much of value...of both social history and legal history.
McKnight has offered a clue to unraveling the impact of foreign rule on Chinese civilization...
Perhaps the most striking aspect of traditional Chinese justice was the 'great act of grace'--
the empirewide amnesty that emptied the prisons and erased the legal record...
In medieval China, every two years on the average, the state flung open its judicial doors.
The docket was cleared, the jails were emptied, the open cases were closed-
-all in a manner without precedent elsewhere in the world..." CLICK THE "MORE IMAGES" LINK ABOVE TO SEE MORE OF THIS TITLE |
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