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The Quality of Mercy, Amnesties and Traditional Chinese Justice

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  • The legal culture of I mperial China, spanning more than two thousand years, from the Former Han (206 B.C.) to the fall of the Qing

  • Incarceration was not among the sanctions used in Chinese penal law and the facil ities for detaining those awaiting sentencing and later reviews were minimal

  • Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands represents the first attempt by a third­ world nation in an intermediate stage of industrial development to wrest by force a colo­ nial possession from a Permanent Member of the United Nations Security Council

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The legal culture of I mperial China, spanning more than two thousand years, from the Former Han (206 B.C.) to the fall of the Qing McKnight The Quality or Mercy, Amnesties and Traditional Chinese Justice Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1 98 1 , pp xii, 1 72, U.S $ 1 5 .00 (hardcover)

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