- Shen Jiaben
Shen Jiaben (沈家本, 1840-1913). Late
Qing Chinese scholar and jurist fromWuxing 吳興 inZhejiang province (modernHuzhou city 湖州). Shen was in charge of the 1905 revision of the Qing Code, abolishing several cruel punishments such as "slow slicing" (lingchi ).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
* [http://bk.baidu.com/view/218852.htm Article in Baidu baike (in Chinese)]
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