Journal of Legal History Studies -- Research on the Famous Court of the Late Qing Dynasty

Author: Li Qicheng
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Publication Date: 2004-06-01
Features: This book, based on a wealth of primary sources, reconstructs the establishment and operation of the various courts in the late Qing Dynasty—simultaneously China's earliest local courts—from top to bottom. It analyzes the breakthroughs these courts made in both procedural and substantive aspects of the traditional judicial system, examining from multiple perspectives the challenges they faced during their operation. It concludes that the establishment of the various courts in the late Qing Dynasty was a significant event in the history of Chinese judicial adjudication, marking the first implementation of the idea of judicial independence at the local level and putting the four-tier, three-instance system into practice. Among the achievements that were inherited and developed by the Republic of China were the independence of judges in handling cases, the emphasis on procedures, the separate handling of civil and criminal cases, and the selection of judges through specialized examinations. These had an indirect influence on the judicial adjudication system after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
This book, based on a wealth of primary sources, reconstructs the establishment and operation of the various courts in the late Qing Dynasty—simultaneously China's earliest local courts—from top to bottom. It analyzes the breakthroughs these courts made in both procedural and substantive aspects of the traditional judicial system, examining from multiple perspectives the challenges they faced during their operation. It concludes that the establishment of the various courts in the late Qing Dynasty was a significant event in the history of Chinese judicial adjudication, marking the first implementation of the idea of judicial independence at the local level and putting the four-tier, three-instance system into practice. Among the achievements that were inherited and developed by the Republic of China were the independence of judges in handling cases, the emphasis on procedures, the separate handling of civil and criminal cases, and the selection of judges through specialized examinations. These had an indirect influence on the judicial adjudication system after the founding of the People's Republic of China.