History of Chinese Legal Thought

Author: Liu Xin
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: This book is guided by historical materialism, providing a systematic and detailed introduction and analysis of the history of legal thought in China from the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties to the modern era over three thousand years. It focuses on discussing the legal thought of the most representative and influential figures in each historical period, who had a profound impact on later generations. The target readers of this book are undergraduate students of law in higher education institutions, as well as self-taught candidates for higher education. The History of Chinese Legal Thought is one of the 21st Century Legal Series textbooks jointly organized by the Law School of Renmin University of China and Renmin University of China Press, designed for undergraduate students of law in higher education institutions. The research object of the study of the history of Chinese legal thought is the theories and doctrines of law in Chinese history. During the writing process, we strive to be guided by dialectical materialism and historical materialism, based on objective history, to discuss and evaluate the legal thought of representative figures in each historical period. The purpose is to summarize historical experience, critically inherit China's traditional legal cultural heritage, and serve the construction of socialist rule of law and the implementation of the rule of law in China.