Criminal Justice in China

Zusammenfassung Mühlhahn offers a comprehensive examination of the criminal justice system in modern China, an institution deeply rooted in politics, society, and culture. Based on unprecedented research in Chinese archives and incorporating prisoner testimonies, witness reports, and interviews, this book is essential reading for understanding modern China.

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Klaus Muhlhahn is Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Klappentext
Examines the criminal justice system in modern China, an institution deeply rooted in politics, society, and culture. This book also reveals the broad contours of criminal justice from late imperial China to the Deng reform era and details the underlying values, successes and failures, and ultimate human costs of the system.

Inhalt

• Introduction The Right Degree of Pain: Imperial China The Prison Regime: Republican China Trials of Terror: War and Revolution, 1937--1949 Reform through Labor: The Communist State Conclusion Abbreviations Archives Notes Acknowledgments Index