This book is a richly textured social and cultural study exploring the profound effects and lasting repercussions of superimposing Western-derived models of rep

Translation of an ancient Chinese manual on juriprudence, including details of many trials and judgments for crimes both high and petty.

In a groundbreaking work, Klaus Muhlhahn offers a comprehensive examination of the criminal justice system in modern China, an institution deeply rooted in poli

To travel through these stories is to cross a landscape of stunning beauty and terrific cruelty, where expectations are subverted, where moral certainties are s