Ta Tsing Leu Lee : being the fundamental laws, and a selection from the supplementary statutes, of the penal code of China / originally printed and published in Pekin, in various successive editions, under the sanction, and by the authority, of the several emperors of the Ta Tsing, or present dynasty ; translated from the Chinese ; and accompanied with an appendix, consisting of authentic documents, and a few occasional notes, illustrative of the subject of the work ; by Sir George Thomas Staunton, bart., F.R.S.

Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
English
Translated from
Chinese
Published/​Created
  • [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1810]
  • London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810.
Description
1 online resource (xxvi, that is, lxxvi, 581 pages, 1 unnumbered page) : facsimile.

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Subject(s)
Translator
Series
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920. [More in this series]
Notes
  • Frontispiece: Fac-simile [in Chinese] of the title-page of the latest edition of the Ta Tsing Leu Lee published in the year 1805, the 10th of the reigning Emperor Kia King.
  • Abstract [in English] of the title-page to the edition of the original Chiense work, printed in the year 1799, from which the fundamental laws, translated in the following pages, have been extracted. A still later edition, exactly similar in respect to the fundamental laws, but containing a greater number of supplementary statutes, and a different selection of illustrative notes, has likewise occasionally been Consulted."--page lxii.
  • Includes index.
  • "Errata."--[1] page, 3rd count.
  • Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
  • Scanned copy defective: page lxii wanting.
Language note
In English; translated from the Chinese.
OCLC
937016670
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