法学家 ›› 2013, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (1): 159-175.

• 论文 • 上一篇    

台前与幕后:一起清代命案的真相

徐忠明,中山大学法学院教授,中山大学法学理论与法律实践研究中心研究员。   

  • 出版日期:2013-02-15 发布日期:2013-02-26

On the Stage and Behind the Scenes: To Interpret the Truth of A Homicide in Qing China

Xu Zhongming, Professor of Sun Yat sen University Law School, Research Fellow at the Legal Theories and Practice Centre of Sun Yat sen University   

  • Online:2013-02-15 Published:2013-02-26

摘要: 近年来,中国法律史研究者对清代司法档案信崇有加,部分学者甚至对司法档案进行形式主义的表层解读。事实上,司法档案当中存在制作乃至虚构的成分。以清代同治十三年广东罗定州发生的“梁宽杀妻案”为例,通过对照分析以广东巡抚张兆栋和刑部尚书崇实名义所作的一份刑科题本与本案初审官员杜凤治所写的相关日记,可以发现,与日记相比,刑科题本中存在比较明显的虚构。这一发现,旨在提醒中国法律史研究者在研究司法档案时,必须保持应有的批判态度,留意其中可能存在的制作或虚构。

关键词: 清代司法档案, 梁宽杀妻案, 刑科题本, 绞监候, 杜凤治

Abstract: Recently the legal history scholars of China believe in, even blindly trust the judicial archives which were often interpreted on a superficial level. In fact, judicial archives tolerated the existence of wrought contents even fabrication. For the case of Liang Kuan killing his wife which happened at Luoding Prefecture of Guangdong Province in Tongzhi Reign, the analysis of a piece of Penal Memorials to the Throne (Xingke Tiben) which wereseparately in the name of Xunfu of Guangdong Province and The Minister of Justice (Xingbu Shangshu), compared with the relevant diaries written by Du Fengzhi who was the first trial official of this case, has shown the traces of fabrication in Penal Memorials to the Throne. Compared with Du Fengzhi’s diaries, the fabrication of Penal Memorials to the Throne was even more obvious. This discovery aimed to call scholars’ attention to keeping a necessary critical attitude towards judicial archives and to noticing the wrought contents or fabrication that might exist in them.

Key words: Judicial Archives of Qing Dynasty, The Case of Liang Kuan Killing His Wife, Penal Memorials to the Throne (Xingke Tiben), Sentenced to Death by Being Strangled But Not being Carried Out Immediately Du Fengzhi