aus gegebenem Anlaß (Fahnenkorrektur von “Die Verbrechen der Söhne” und Abgabetermin für Müllner, der noch keinen Titel hat, und IASL-Rezensionen…):
1. Jeffrey C Kinkley: Chinese Justice, the Fiction. Law and Literature in Modern China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press 2000. Sucht man bei JStor, findet man zahlreiche Rezensionen, bei Google kann man blättern.
2. Ann Waltner untersucht Texte aus der Zeit der Ming-Dynastie1– und man fühlt sich heimisch wie in unseren 19. und 20. Jahrhunderten: “From Casebook to Fiction: Kung-an in Late Imperial China”. In: Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 110, No. 2 (Apr. – Jun., 1990), pp. 281-289
“But what is perhaps even more interesting than the differences are the similarities in world-view shown by the two texts. Wrongs are righted. Criminals are, in the end, brought to justice. Women who have affairs are murdered. Husbands who wander are brought to grief. Rightful heirs inherit, and scheming relatives are dispossessed. The district magistrate is seen as a dispenser of justice and as an agent of morality. The world of the spirits and ol humans, though distinct, are interpenetrating, and intelligence gathered from access to the spirit world, be it via dreams, divinations, or portents, might be used lo solve crimes in the mortal world. The judicial system is not infallible, but it docs by and large dispense justice. Basic notions of how the world works are the same; differences lie in nuance and in detail.”
- Hauptsächlich aus dem 16. Jahrhundert. [↩]
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