Citations:Wuhsiang
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English citations of Wuhsiang
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- 1952 July-August, “Marriage Law Brings Happiness”, in China Reconstructs[1], number 4, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 46, column 1:
- THE Marriage Law is just over two years old, yet it has already changed life in the Chinese countryside.
In Wuhsiang county, Shansi province, for example, 82 per cent of the 1,695 marriages that have taken place since the law was passed were based on free choice of partners — not arranged by parents or families as in the past.
- 1967, Shao-chuan Leng, “People's Justice Under the Common Program”, in Justice in Communist China: A Survey of the Judicial System of the Chinese People's Republic[2], Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 40:
- As a result of deficiency of laws and judicial personnel, there were many cases of incompetence, graft, and miscarriage of justice in the operation of the "people's courts." In Wuhsiang county of Shansi province, for instance, the judicial organ exacted a confession from Wu P'u-kuei through "third degree" methods and sentenced him to death for an alleged crime he had never committed.