Social transformation and legal changes in modern East Asia

Author: China Social Sciences Press
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: This book systematically discusses the processes of social change and legal reform in modern East Asia (China, Japan, Korea): it narrates China's social transformation from the Opium War to the Republican period and the gradual improvement of its legal system; clarifies the imitation and innovation of Japanese law; and analyzes the passive to conscious legal reform processes in Korea and South Korea. The book is well-organized in its narrative and rich in data, serving as an important achievement in the study of modern East Asian legal history and offering some reference value for China's legal development. Legal civilization is an important part of human civilization's development. Although the backgrounds and paths of legal civilization in Eastern and Western countries differ, the experiences and values they have created are all valuable treasures of human civilization. Exploring the significance of the legal modernization of East Asian countries lies in this very aspect.