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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Criminal intent and homicide law in Qing and Republican China Abstract: This dissertation examines the categorization of homicide offenses and the treatment of criminal intent in China from the eighteenth century to 1949. Using a combination of local- and central-level court cases from the Qing dynasty and the Republican era, in conjunction with legal codes and the writings of jurists, this project highlights the complexity with which Chinese law intent was an important category of analysis for Qing jurists, one conceptualized along a finely graded continuum of severity. Six categories of intent-based homicide were identified in the legal codes as the major homicide offenses. For the category of premeditated killing the intent to kill arose before the crime was carried out, whereas for the category of sudden intent killing the intent to kill arose only at the moment of the crime. Additional categories covered homicides resulting from an intent to harm but not to kill, and homicides committed with recklessness, through negligence, or by accident. |
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