Book #78389
Murder and Adultery in Late Imperial China: A Study of Law & Morality
Meijer, Marinus Johan. Murder and Adultery in Late Imperial China: A Study of Law and Morality. Leiden, [NL]: Brill, 1991. vi, 137 pp. Hardcover. Fine. $45. * Compares the development of two sections of the penal code of the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) that covering premeditated homicide between social equals, and that concerning a husband killing his unfaithful wife and her lover. The concern for moral purity gradually turned the husband's understandable if unfortunate emotional reaction into exemplary conduct, and the wife's misbehavior into sin.
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