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...Chi P. Pham Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia . By Anand A. Yang . Oakland : University of California Press , 2021 . vii , 292 pp. ISBN: 9780520294561 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Empire of Convicts...

...Richard B. Allen Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia . By Anand A. Yang . Oakland : University of California Press , 2021 . 277 pp. ISBN: 978052094561 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 The last two decades have...

...Beatrice S. Bartlett Policing and Punishment in China: From Patriarchy to ‘the People’ . By Michael R. Dutton . New York : Cambridge Universtity Press , 1992 . xii, 391 pp. $69.95. Traditional Chinese Penal Law . By Geofferey Maccormack . Edinburgh : Edinburgh Universtity...

...Satadru Sen Abstract T he penal colony that the british established in the Andaman Islands at the end of the 1850s was originally intended as a place of permanent exile for a particular class of Indian criminals. These offenders had, for the most part, been convicted by special tribunals...

... sphere, in tangible ways. Manchukuo handed over to Japan the power to staff and ideologically mold its judiciary, while the tutelary attitude that Japan took toward the state was concretely manifested in aspects of Manchukuo penal and civil law, and a surprisingly contentious path to the abrogation...

... , Wakayama, Yoshimune gathered about him a cluster of confucianists, including Ogyu Sorai and his brother Hokkei (Kan), and they in turn developed a new Chinese-based jurisprudence with new legislative concepts and roles for law generally. Hokkei did a recension of die Ming penal code supplied...

... past. In western India, carpet weaving was centered in jails where convicts produced high-quality rugs using historic designs in prison factories that served as laboratories for redefining penal labor and traditional design under the eyes of the colonial state. For, even as they were poised...

..., rigorously researched, and meticulously detailed investigation into early twentieth-century Chinese penal reform, from the last decade of the Qing dynasty to the formative years of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Throughout this study, Jan Kiely uses the concept of ganhua —which he defines...

.... 2 The only punishment which a local magistrate was empowered to carry out himself was beating with bamboo or imposing the cangue. Cases involving penal servitude, permanent exile, or death went through a procedure known as shen-ch'üan (“to retry and pass on”). This meant that after a case had...

... had remained unchanged? Having accepted an impossible assignment, Professor MacCormack makes a valiant attempt to deal with the issues of concern to the series; we can hardly blame him if he is only in part successful. MacCormack is a specialist in law codes, specifically in the penal law codes...

... the emergence of the modern penal system in China during the first half of the twentieth century. The result is a social and cultural history of Chinese prisons and the discourse surrounding them in the very late Qing period and Republican China. His history covers roughly fifty years, from 1895, the year...

... penalties if a written contract so provides, but cannot collect damages and the penal sum for the same act. And, closing the second division of the title, is a provision 9 Vreede, De Indischc regeling van de arbcidsovcrecnkomst (1927-33), 2 vols.; Hart, Het koninklijk besluit tot -wettelijke regeling van...

.... By RADHIKA SiNGHA. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. xxx, 342 pp. $32.00 (cloth). In this fresh and stimulating volume Radhika Singha examines the creation of the "rule of law" by the East India Company in India, from Warren Hastings's first regulations of 1772 to Thomas Macaulay's draft penal code...

... that this is the first book to present the judicial process as it actually operated in its mature development, and not as it was supposed to operate. Relying primarily on reports of law cases in the Hsing-an-hui-lan (HAHL) or Conspectus of Penal Cases, a largely unused resource, Bodde and Morris reconstruct the reality...

.... Traditional Chinese Penal Law. By G E O F F R E Y MACCORMACK. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990. x, 309 pp. $69.00. (In the U.S. distributed by Columbia University Press) These books present the findings of two scholars who studied Chinese penal law at opposite ends of the world but apparently...

...). These arguments for the protection of “public order” and “public health” implicated not only restrictions on fundamental rights in the constitution, but also provisions in the island's Penal Code. In particular, interveners referred to section 261, which prohibited “public nuisance … which causes any common...

..., 2973. 4 Nos. 3818, 4638, 4640, 3268, 2640, 3984, 4010, 4022, 2482, 3436, 3345. 5 Nos. 2504, 2709, 3307, 3560. T'ang penal code: Nos. 3252, 3608, 3690, 3593. 6 Nos. 2507, 3559, 3787, 3841 (reverse), 4640 (reverse). 7 Nos. 4640.(reverse), 2942, 2945. 8...

..., such as farming, lives of the peasants, taxes, merchants, salt production, population growth, the lowborn class, divorce, the penal system, the eating culture, and the outhouses at the royal palace. These sorts of volumes are in quite high demand among Korean readers, and there have been a goodly number...

.... Long Road Home is the memoir of a North Korean accused of espionage who escapes after six years in penal labor camps. He makes his way to China, South Korea, and the U.S., where this narrative was generated and published. As an American text, it speaks to U.S. audiences and serves largely to reconfirm...

..., withdrawal from the deliberate in iction of physical injury (Ignatieff 1978, 5 26). Both of these assumptions, although not incorrect in some institutional settings, must be treated with caution. Early Victorians tended to view ogging as preferable to the penal transportation of child criminals...