A Question of Intent
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Homicide Law and Criminal Justice in Qing and Republican China
Jennifer M. Neighbors
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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.
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
