Brigrands & Robbers - Guangdong Sheng

Politics & Government - Social Conditions

Qing Dynasty - Chna - Southeast

Content :
List of Illustrations and Tables viii
Note to Readers x
1. Introduction 1
2. An Age of Mounting Disorder 14
Preventive Measures and Protective Strategies
3. Instructing the People and Disseminating the Laws 41
4. Th e Reach of the State 56
5. Community Security and Self-Defense 80
Crimes, Criminals, and Community
6. Th e Structures of Crime 105
7. Th e Laboring Poor and Banditry 126
8. Bandits, Brotherhoods, and Collective Crime 147
9. Networks of Accomplices 170
State and Local Law Enforcement
10. Th e Qing Code and Special Judicial Legislation 193
11. Enforcing the Laws and Suppressing the Criminals 214
12. Prosecution and Punishment 234
13. Conclusion 257
Aft erword 267
Glossary 269
Bibliography 279
Index 301