Indifferent and composed, he arrived in The Hague

Author: Ni Zheng Oh
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Publish Date: 1999-04-01
Features: Ni Zheng (Japanese-Austrian), China's first International Judge, a renowned legal scholar in China. Born in 1906, he is now nearly 100 years old. Ni Zheng can be said to have walked alongside the history of China's 20th-century legal system throughout his life. In his own words, he said: "My life has never been separated from the 'law.'" Ni Zheng (Japanese-Austrian), a highly respected contemporary international lawyer in China. At the age of 92, he completed the writing of his memoir, "" () (Published by the Legal Press in April 1999). In the book, the elderly Ni tells his extraordinary life story with detailed materials and concise writing, including his early ambition to study law, his overseas studies, his career as a lawyer and judge after returning to China, his participation in the Far Eastern International Military Tribunal in the 1940s to judge the main war criminals of Japan during World War II, and his election as China's first International Court Judge at the age of 87 in 1984. From the East to the West, from the judiciary to diplomacy, the book of the elderly Ni can be called a witness to the vicissitudes of modern Chinese history in a century, especially the history of China's legal system from nothing to something.