The rule of law without due process: Punishing robbers and bandits in early-twentieth-century China

Modern China

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 230-257

  Xu, Xiaoqun ^a  

^a CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandit Law; Judicial reform; New Policy reform; Robbers and bandits; Summary execution

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM; CRIME; POLICY REFORM;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 34147140408     PISSN: 00977004     EISSN: 15526836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0097700406298163     Document Type: Article

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