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Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
A General History of Foreign Concessions in China
Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press · 2024
Published by our press in 1991, this book won the Second Prize of the National Book Award and the Second Prize of the Shanghai Philosophy and Social S…
An Outline History of Prison Studies in China (Revised Edition)
The Commercial Press · 2023
As a specialized discipline and a field of Chinese-language scholarship, Chinese prison studies was born during the late Qing dynasty, when Western le…
Women, Family, and Legal Practice: A Social History of Law since the Qing Dynasty
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2022
This book is a socio-legal history of law centered on women, marriage, and the family. Taking the legal status of women in family life since the Qing …
Foreign Rules and Indigenous Customs: The Modern Transformation of the Jitian Legal System
Peking University Press · 2025
This book first examines the traditional law of sacrificial fields and the judicial handling of sacrificial-field cases by the authorities, arguing th…
History of Chinese Legal Thought (Second Edition)
Peking University Press · 2025
This textbook traces the history of legal thought through successive dynasties, examining the legal theories and views of various classes, social grou…
Chinese Legal History (Second Edition)
Peking University Press · 2025
This book divides the five-thousand-year history of Chinese legal system into five periods: the period of origin, the period of contending schools, th…
A Study of Coinage Law in the Tang Dynasty
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2019
The Tang dynasty was a crucial historical stage in which the natural economy declined and the money economy gradually developed, a development marked …
Fifty Years of Japan's Opening: The Origin of the Enactment of the Imperial Constitution
Kaikoku Gojūnen Shi Hakkōsho · 2019
In July 1853, the U.S. East India Squadron arrived in Japan, forcing the Tokugawa shogunate out of its policy of national seclusion and into opening t…
Chinese Culture Reader: 'Guandang' in the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Jilin Literature and History Publishing House · 2015
'Guandang'—allowing officials to atone for their crimes with their posts—originated in the 'zadizui' provision of the Jin Code, under which noble rank…