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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (1): 81–104.
Published: 01 February 2004
... Lunatic Asylum in the Early Nineteenth Century.” In Health, Medicine, and Empire: Perspectives on Colonial India , ed. Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison . Delhi : Orient Longman . Foucault Michel . 1979 . Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison . New York : Vintage...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (3): 745–747.
Published: 01 August 2005
...Mark Ravina Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan . By Daniel V. Botsman . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2005 . xiv , 319 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S J A P A N 745 ethno-territorial...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 583–585.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Bradly W. Reed Crime, Punishment, and the Prison in Modern China . By Frank Dikötter . New York : Columbia University Press , 2002 . xvi , 441 pp. $38.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 583 with the opportunity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (2): 534–536.
Published: 01 May 1995
...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...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (1): 182–183.
Published: 01 February 1988
...Richard W. Lariviere Crime and Punishment in Ancient India . By Tarapada Lahiri . New Delhi : Radiant Publishers , 1986 . xviii , 207 pp. $22.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 182 T H E J O U R N A L OF A S I A N S T U D I E S It demonstrates...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 927–928.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Zvi Ben-Dor Crime, Punishment, and the Prison in Modern China . By Frank Dikötter . New York : Columbia University Press , 2001 . xvi, 441 pp. $38.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 927 Crime, Punishment, and the Prison...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (2): 393–394.
Published: 01 February 1979
...Jeffrey Perrill Imperial Crime and Punishment: The Massacre at Jallianwala Bagh and British Judgment, 1919–1920 . By Helen Fein . Honolulu : University Press of Hawaii , 1977 . xix, 250 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $12.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (2): 361–363.
Published: 01 February 1979
...Richard Strassberg Eight Chinese Plays—from the 13th Century to the Present . Translated with an Introduction by William Dolby . New York : Columbia University Press , 1978 . 164 pp. Notes. $12.00. Crime and Punishment in Medieval Chinese Drama—Three Judge Pao Plays . Translated...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (3): 565–566.
Published: 01 May 1984
..., Charlottesville The Conception of Punishment in Early Indian Literature. By TERENCE R DAY. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1982. 245 pp. Notes, References, Glossary, Index. $9. (Distributed by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J.) Terence Day, of the University of Manitoba, states...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 720–721.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Jenny Huangfu Day Crime, Justice and Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong: Central Police Station, Central Magistracy and Victoria Gaol . By May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2020 . 340 pp. ISBN: 9789888528127 (cloth). Copyright ©...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1945) 4 (3): 291–293.
Published: 01 May 1945
..., social wisdom, and imagination. Milwaukee-Downer College MERIBETH E. CAMERON Nippon. The crime and punishment of Japan. By WILLIS LAMOTT. New York: John Day Company, 1944. 258 pp. $2.50; This volume, written by a keen observer who lived and taught in Japan for nineteen years down to 1938, is particularly...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (2): 227–244.
Published: 01 February 1964
...Judy Feldman Harrison Abstract A Study of the Ch'ing legal system, the culmination of the experience of many dynasties, provides clues to the understanding of Chinese political behavior before extensive Western contact. For this period, the decisions of the Board of Punishments ( hsing-fu...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (4): 797–814.
Published: 01 August 1971
...W. Allyn Rickett Abstract A unique feature of traditional Chinese law was the provision by statute that an offender who voluntarily surrendered and confessed before discovery and who made full restitution was entitled to remsision of punishment. Offenders who physically harmed their victims...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 337–346.
Published: 01 May 2010
...-century Britain, more than 200 crimes were punishable by death, including theft, cutting down a tree, and robbing a rabbit warren. China of the late Qing dynasty had some 850 capital crimes, many reflecting the privileged position of male over female and senior over junior. Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (2): 291–307.
Published: 01 February 1983
...Robert M. Hayden Abstract The standard view of excommunication as severe, unusual punishment in India is shown to be inaccurate regarding a caste in Maharashtra. An alternative concept, centering on suspension from caste as an inevitable response to the pollution always incurred with any violation...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1150–1174.
Published: 01 November 1994
... with the maintenance of certain institutions. W. F. J. Jenner has recently identified some of these: the bureaucracy, walls, “dad, mum and the kids,” “severe punishment,” among others (Jenner 1992). In Jenner's analysis, the fact of China being ineluctably Chinese is readily translated into the fact that it has failed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1105–1135.
Published: 01 November 2009
... punishments, while complainants regarded their appeals as a natural right no matter how useless they were. In this way, the complaint system become a hot potato for rulers that was too hot to hold but too valuable to drop. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 In recent years...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 35 (3): 441–459.
Published: 01 May 1976
...William M. Speidel Abstract In 1871, aborigines in southern Taiwan killed fifty-four shipwrecked Ryukyuan fisherman. By 1874 this incident had grown into a major international crisis for the Ch'ing Court in Peking, because the Japanese had insisted on punishing the aborigines (through a military...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 89–111.
Published: 01 February 2014
... the place and definition of the family, and related issues such as inheritance, divorce, and visible social actions, including ritual purity, fasting, almsgiving, and criminal punishments. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014 2014 Explanations of the transmission of Islamic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (2): 255–279.
Published: 01 February 1971
... and that ordinary Chinese people litigated civil matters. Civil cases did not usually result in punishment for the offenders nor were there long delays in the processing of civil matters. Finally, the legal system of the Ch'ing period can not be differentiated from a modern legal system on the basis of its lack...
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