Research on the Codification of Modern Chinese Civil Law: 1901-1949

Author: Zhang Sheng
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: A revised legal scholar's resume, which compiles "Brief Tables of Legal Scholar's Resumes" for different periods, allowing us to roughly understand who participated in the compilation of the Civil Code during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, their educational backgrounds, and their positions before and after the compilation of the code. Second, the author's interpretation of civil code codification has a certain persuasive power. The codification of civil law during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China took place against a complex political, economic, and cultural background, with many intricate details and a wide scope of involvement. How to objectively and comprehensively describe this process is quite challenging. In "Research on Modern Codification," Zhang Sheng chooses an interpretation method that is more in line with historical objectivity. This method uses civil code codification as the narrative thread and government, legal scholars, and the public as the main subjects of the events (especially legal scholars as the primary role), generally revealing how legal scholars collaborated with the government to create laws, completing a responsive civil law system (with the Civil Code as the institutional framework and value core).