A collection of answers (pi 批, j. 1-14) and sentences (pan 判, j. 15) handed down by the author (who insists that he wrote them in his own hand) during a decade spent as an official, starting in 1887. The pi, which are not dated, are rarely longer than one 276-character page; they deal with every kind of “civil” affairs or conflicts and perfectly illustrate the magistrate in his role as “educator” admonishing his “children”; the captions give the name of the plaintiff but do not indicate the nature of the case. The ten pan in j. 15 are comparatively longer, and the captions are more suggestive of the contents. [Revoir la préface]
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