Murder and Adultery in Late Imperial China: A Study of Law & Morality

by Marinus Johan Meijer

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Meijer, Marinus Johan. Murder and Adultery in Late Imperial China: A Study of Law and Morality. Leiden, NL : Brill, 1991. vi, 137 pp. Hardcover. Fine. 45. * Compares the development of two sections of the penal code of the Qing dynasty 1644-1912 that covering premeditated homicide between social equals, and that concerning a husband killing his unfaithful wife and her lover. The concern for moral purity gradually turned the husband's understandable if

• Binding: Hardcover

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