Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
20.12.2025
Verlag
Cambridge AcademicSeitenzahl
444
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/15.7/2.8 cm
Gewicht
825 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-316-51530-3
In this innovative history, Liang Cai examines newly excavated manuscripts alongside traditional sources to explore convict politics in the early Chinese empires, proposing a new framework for understanding Confucian discussions of law and legal practice. While a substantial number of convict laborers helped operate the local bureaucratic apparatus in early China, the central court reemployed numerous previously convicted men as high officials. Convict politics emerged, she argues, because while the system often criminalized people including the innocent, it was juxtaposed with redemption policies and frequent amnesties in pursuit of a crime-free utopia. This dual system paralyzed the justice system, provoking intense Confucian criticism and resulting in a deep-seated skepticism towards law in the Chinese tradition with a long-lasting political legacy.
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