Women, Crime and the Courts

Women, Crime and the Courts Hong Kong 1841-1941

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Publisher's Synopsis

Kwan Lai-chun was sick of being made to feel second-class by her husbands concubine; sick of her mother-in-laws endless carping about the money she spent; sick of the whole family. Late one sticky, humid night, something snapped in her -- and she grabbed the meat chopper. Within minutes, three people were dead: the concubine with over 70 gashes, many of them to the bone. Kwan was found guilty and became the second and last woman in Hong Kong to suffer the death penalty. But behind her story, and those of the citys other female murderers, lie complex webs of relationships and jealousies, poverty and despair. Taking the first 100 years of Hong Kongs colonial history, this book unravels the lives of women -- Chinese and Westerners alike -- who found themselves on the wrong side of the law. Hong Kongs female prison population was a tiny fraction of that in Britain or America, but there are still plenty of tales from its women kidnappers, smugglers, bomb-makers, thieves and cruel mistresses.

Book information

ISBN: 9789887963981
Publisher: Blacksmith Books (HK)
Imprint: Blacksmith Books
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 280
Weight: 414g
Height: 141mm
Width: 213mm
Spine width: 20mm