Heaven Has Eyes

Law and Justice in Chinese History

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvXiaoqun Xu,Christopher Newport University) Xu, Xiaoqun (Professor of History, Professor of History

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Heaven Has Eyes is a comprehensive but concise history of Chinese law and justice from the imperial era to the post-Mao era. Never before has a single book treated the traditional Chinese law and judicial practices and their modern counterparts as a coherent history, addressing both criminal and civil justice. This book fills this void.Xiaoqun Xu addresses the evolution and function of law codes and judicial practices throughout China's long history, and examines the transition from traditional laws and practices to modern ones in the twentieth century. To the Chinese of the imperial era, justice was an alignment of heavenly reason (tianli), state law (guofa), and human relations (renqing). Such a conception did not change until the turn of the twentieth century, when Western-derived notions-natural rights, legal equality, the rule of law, judicial independence, and due process--came to replace the Confucian moral code of right and wrong. The legal-judicial reform agendas that emerged in the beginning of the twentieth century (and are still ongoing today) stemmed from this change in Chinese moral and legal thinking, but to materialize the said principles in everyday practices is a very different order of things, and the past century was fraught with legal dramas and tragedies. Heaven Has Eyes lays out how and why that is the case.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-12-11
Mått239 x 155 x 38 mm
Vikt658 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor376
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190060046

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Introduction: Law and Justice in Chinese HistoryPart One: Law and Justice in Imperial China, 221 BEC-1911 CEChapter 1: Five Punishments and Beyond: The Evolution of Penal Codes in Imperial ChinaChapter 2: From the Imperial Capital to the Magistrate's Court: Judicial Practices in Imperial ChinaChapter 3: The Emperor, the Family, and the Land: Law and Order in Imperial ChinaPart Two: Law and Justice in Late Qing and Republican China, 1901-1949Chapter 4: The Best of the Chinese and of the Western: Legal-Judicial Reform in the Late Qing, 1901-1911Chapter 5: The Rule of Law, Judicial Independence, and Due Process: Ideals and Realities in the Republican Era, 1912-1949Chapter 6: Bandits, Collaborators, and Wives/Concubines: Criminal and Civil Justice in the Republican Era, 1912-1949Part Three: Law and Justice in Maoist China, 1949-1976Chapter 7: "Contradictions between the People and the Enemy": Criminal Justice as the "Proletarian Dictatorship"Chapter 8: "Contradictions among the People": Mediation and Adjudication of Civil DisputesPart Four: Law and Justice in Post-Mao China, 1977-2018Chapter 9: The Legal System and the Rule of Law: Changes in Criminal Justice, 1977-1996Chapter 10: "Naked Officials" and "Heavenly Net": Changes in Criminal Justice, 1997-2018Chapter 11: "Look toward Money": Civil Justice in Post-Mao China, 1977-2018Conclusion: Heaven Has EyesChronology of Chinese HistoryChinese Character ListNotesSelected BibliographyIndex