RETURN TO THE VALLEY OF THE FIENDISH CHINESE IMPERIAL PUNISHMENTS
(for corrupt officials in government.)
…especially severe in the Ming dynasty. Often, all their family and friends were killed, and they were boiled alive, after that their skin was flayed from the corpse and hung up as a warning to other corrupt elite.
The Honor of Fu Manchu
…an official was involved with a pecuniary interest or bribery, he would be subject to a legal penalty irrespective of the amount of the
bribery.
…In the Qin Dynasty, an official would be punished for the corruption of even a coin, such as (with) face tattooing, (assignment to) fortification building, trenching and other coolies.(coolie work)
…In the Northern Wei Dynasty, a local governor would be sentenced to death for the acceptance of a sheep or a cup of wine.
…According to the law of Tang Dynasty, if a local governor accepted the bribe and the amount of bribery equaled to a bolt of silk, he would be sentenced to 100 beatings with wooden staves.
…If the amount was more than a bolt of silk, he would be subject to a harsher punishment, and when the amount reached fifteen bolt of silk, he would be sentenced to be hanged.
…In the Tang Dynasty, for example, an official would be punished even if he accepted other people’s things indirectly. He would be punished for the acceptance of money as well as (of)…meat, food, wine, fruit …deemed as bribery. Even for those officials who had left their positions, they would also be punished for the acceptance of things from the people of their former jurisdiction.
…In China, the earliest imprisonment appeared in the Qin and Han Dynasties, which were the laws to remove the officials’ titles and dismiss them from office.
… In the Sui Dynasty, the law stipulated that if an official was suspected of embezzlement but not up to (did not merit) the death punishment, he would be given lifelong imprisonment even if he was pardoned.
. .. sometimes the imprisoned official still could not restore political rights even if the punishment was lifted. He could not live in the capital nor enjoyed the same rights as an honest civilian.
…It also created a good atmosphere for socio-economic progress, nipped the corruption thinking of officials in the bud, and played a major role in the stability of people’s livelihood and development of feudal commodity economy. It must be admitted that Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang’s “heavy punishments on officials” is truly commendable now.
Credit to:
FENG Yanyan
Lecturer College of Humanities and Law, ShanDong University of Science and
Technology, Qingdao, China.
*Corresponding author. Received 8 March 2016; accepted 17 May 2016
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