RT Book
T1 The confucianization of law and the lenient punishments in China
A1 Yang, Xue
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1866323008
AB This article provides a clue on China’s criminal policy on lenient punishments in history, including the confucianization of law and the alternatives to punishments in imperial era, the attack on Confucianism and the praise of the legalism in Mao era, and the shifts of criminal policy since reform and opening up, which may shed light on the complexity and prospect of lenient punishments in contemporary China