This book uses the monographic study of litigation subjects, prosecution, trial, and enforcement to reveal the formation, operation, and development of criminal proceeding conventions in the Tang Dynasty. It also outlines the combination, coordination, and interaction of rules, conventions, and ideas in the traditional Chinese legal system, and presents an overview of the evolution and development of traditional litigation in China. This book is intended mainly for scholars and graduate and undergraduate students in the fields of law and Chinese history.
Preface.- Introduction.- Special subjects and Proceeding Conventions.-
Women Servants.- Neighbours.- Prosecution Practice Study.- Prosecution
Principles.- Impeachment.- Prosecution in Censorate.- Exposure.- Grassing.-
Appeal.- Judicial Conventions.- Joint trial.- Group Judgement.- Retrial.-
Redress.- Enforcement Convetions.- Flogging.- Exile with Extra servitude.-
Long-term Exile.- Commit Suicede by Imperial Order.
Xi Chen is Professor of Criminal Law and Ph.D. advisor at the Rule of Law School, Northwest University of Political Science and Law. He received his bachelor of laws and master of laws degrees at Northwest University of Political Science and Law, and his Ph.D. degree in history at Shaanxi Normal University. He conducted his post-doctoral studies at Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Xiangtan University Law School. He chaired more than 10 research projects, including two National Social Sciences Research Projects A Study of Criminal Proceeding Conventions in Tang Dynasty and A Study of Litigation Conventions in Song Dynasty. He also participated in many national-level research projects. He published two academic monographs and over 30 papers in key journals such as Jurists, Law, and Legal Science. He got top-level awards such as the first prize in the Fourth China Legal Culture Research Award and Shaanxi Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award.
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