Murder, Adultery and Suicide in the British Courts of Weihaiwei
By Dr Carol G. S. Tan
Tuesday 21st April, 2009 at 7.00pm
Globus Wines @ 1933, 10 Sha Jing Lu (by Jiu Long Hotel, near Zhou Jia Zhui Lu/ Li Yang Lu)
After a decade of being no more than a quiet backwater, the territory of Weihaiwei, its British administration and system of courts received unwelcomed attention in the English press in China when in 1912 three Chinese defendants, including a woman who had recently given birth to a child, were sentenced to death in two separate trials. This lecture traces the various criticisms made in the press and the responses to those criticisms and examines the impact of this episode on the criminal justice system of Weihaiwei.
Carol Tan is Senior Lecturer in Law at SOAS, University of London. She has held full time appointments at the University of Hong Kong and visiting appointments at Duke University Law School, National Taiwan University and Shandong University (Weihai) and at other universities. She is author of British Rule in China: Law and Justice in Weihaiwei 1898-1930 (London: Wildy, Simmonds and Hill, 2008).
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