Essays on the History of Chinese Legal System

Author: Tsinghua University Press
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: This book collects fourteen of the works by the renowned legal historian, Professor Huang Jingjia, on the history of Chinese legal systems. It includes detailed research on the Spring and Autumn Period's legal judgments, the methodology of traditional legal systems, Confucianization and modernization, the interconnections between the legal systems and academia on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, as well as the traditional legal systems and old customs of Taiwan. It also features intimate discussions on the academic journeys and ideological insights of modern legal giants such as Shen Jiaben, Xue Yunsheng, and Dai Yanhui. The author, having experienced both old and new systems and spanning both sides of the Taiwan Strait, has witnessed the history of modern Chinese legal systems at the intersection of tradition and modernity. Thus, his thoughts and reflections are a self-narrative of the history of modern Chinese legal systems. These firsthand accounts and reflections are comprehensively presented in this book, offering readers a unique perspective.
This book compiles fourteen works by the renowned legal historian, Professor Huang Jingjia, on the history of Chinese legal systems. It includes detailed research on the Spring and Autumn Period's legal judgments, the methodology of traditional legal systems, Confucianization and modernization, the interconnections between the legal systems and academia on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, as well as the traditional legal systems and old customs of Taiwan. It also features intimate discussions on the academic journeys and ideological insights of modern legal giants such as Shen Jiaben and Xue Yunsheng, as well as the representative legal scholar of Taiwan, Dai Yanhui. The author, having experienced both old and new systems and spanning both sides of the Taiwan Strait, has witnessed the history of modern Chinese legal systems at the intersection of tradition and modernity. Thus, his thoughts and reflections are a self-narrative of the history of modern Chinese legal systems. These firsthand accounts and reflections are comprehensively presented in this book, offering readers a unique perspective.
This book is suitable for legal researchers and law students, as well as scholars from other disciplines who are interested in the history of Chinese legal systems.