“Baqi Guntu” in Qing Dynasty Law: Hard to Punish the Privileged Thug

• In Event: History and Politics of Asia

Brief Overview

This study examines the tension between Qing China's bureaucracy and autocratic power through a case of overturned conviction, showing how a lack of formal legal rationality led to mutual undermining of both.

Author

• Ju Bai, Peking University