Title: Murder and Adultery in Later Imperial China: A Study of Law and Morality

Author: Marinus Johan Meijer

Publisher: E.J. Brill

Publishing Date: 1991 in the Netherlands

Edition: First

Binding: Cloth hardcover

Pages: 137 including index

Illustrated: No

Interior Condition: Solid binding, complete and intact. Like New

Exterior Condition: Like New

Dust Jacket: No

Size: 8vo

ISBN: 90-04-09273-0

Comments: 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.