The Quality of Mercy: Amnesties and Traditional Chinese Justice

by Brian E. McKnight

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McKnight, Brian E. The Quality of Mercy: Amnesties and Traditional Chinese Justice. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1981 . xii, 172 pp. Publisher's green cloth fine, in near fine dust jacket. Internally clean. 35. * The book is a scholarly study of the frequent and systematic use of imperial amnesties throughout Chinese history. It explores why traditional Chinese states regularly emptied jails and cleared dockets, a practice that occurred approximately

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