Shen Jiaben
Shen Jiaben (沈家本, 1840 – 1913). Late Qing Chinese scholar and jurist from Wuxing 吳興 in Zhejiang province（modern Huzhou city 湖州）. Shen was in charge of the 1905 revision of the Qing Code, abolishing several cruel punishments such as "slow slicing" (lingchi). He served as the minister of justice in the Qing Dynasty in 1911-12, in the cabinet of Yuan Shikai.
References
- Boorman, Howard L., Richard C. Howard, and Joseph K. H. Cheng, eds. Biographical Dictionary of Republican China. New York: Columbia University Press, 1967.
External links
This article is issued from
Wikipedia.
The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike.
Additional terms may apply for the media files.