Title: Murder and Adultery in Later Imperial China: A Study of Law and Morality Author: Marinus Johan Meijer Publisher: E.J. Brill Publishing Date: 1991 in the Netherlands Edition: First Binding: Cloth hardcover Pages: 137 including index Illustrated: No Interior Condition: Solid binding, complete and intact. Like New Exterior Condition: Like New Dust Jacket: No Size: 8vo ISBN: 90-04-09273-0 Comments: Compares the development of two sections of the penal code of the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) that covering premeditated homicide between social equals, and that concerning a husband killing his unfaithful wife and her lover. The concern for moral purity gradually turned the husband's understandable if unfortunate emotional reaction into exemplary conduct, and the wife's misbehavior into sin.