Legal Culture History Tan

Author: He Qinhua
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book collects more than 20 newly written works by the author on the history of legal culture research in recent years. They provide detailed analysis, examination, and interpretation of various topics of interest to China's legal academia, including the sources of Qing Dynasty law, Confucianism and traditional Chinese legal culture, cross-cultural litigation in the late Qing and early Republican era and modern Chinese society, the cultural backgrounds of litigation and non-litigation in China and the West, the development of ancient Japanese legal culture and its influence of Confucianism, the compilation process and issues of the 1898 Japanese Civil Code, the evolution of a century of German competitive legislation, misunderstandings about the legal concepts of the Far East, the characteristics and insights of Japanese legal culture, the modernization of law, the death and rebirth of ancient Chinese jurisprudence, missionaries and modern Chinese jurisprudence, and the impact of the national unified judicial examination on public legal awareness and national legal education. Additionally, it offers critiques on the lives and works of renowned legal scholars in Chinese and foreign legal history, such as Grotius, Cheng Shude, Yang Honglie, and Qiu Hanping. The various topics in this book have been published in major domestic journals and the Taiwan University Journal, with most being original contributions that fill gaps in Chinese legal research. The book features clear themes, substantial evidence, thorough arguments, and fluent writing. Although it is a specialized study, it remains engaging and offers much intellectual stimulation and enlightenment.