Research on the Codification of Criminal Procedure Law in the Late Qing Dynasty and Early Republic of China

Author: Guo Chengwei
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Research on the Codification of Criminal Procedure Law in the Late Qing and Early Republican Period reflects the historical evolution of legal norms for criminal procedure in ancient China and its social impact. It objectively analyzes how, after China became a semi-colonial and feudal society in 1840, patriotic individuals dedicated to reviving China actively introduced criminal procedure concepts centered on the principle of nullum crimen sine lege (no crime without law), thereby promoting the theoretical transformation of criminal procedure law. It objectively examines the Draft Civil Procedure Law of the Great Qing Dynasty and the Draft Criminal Procedure Law of the Great Qing Dynasty formulated by the late Qing government, which pioneered the historical process of modernizing criminal procedure law in China and evaluated their functional roles. The book also analyzes and evaluates the efforts by the Beiyang government to revise and advance the late Qing criminal procedure law, as well as the Civil Procedure Law of the Republic of China formulated by the Nanjing government of the Republic of China in the late 1920s, ultimately completing the process of criminal procedure codification and its social consequences. Through research on the paths, models, lessons learned, and regularities of criminal procedure codification, this book not only provides valuable historical insights for the current revision of criminal procedure law but also fills the academic void in this field.