History of Chinese Legal Thought

Author: Liu Xin
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Publish Date: 2000-03-01
Features: The History of Chinese Legal Thought, as its name implies, is the study of legal thought in Chinese history. Legal thought arises with the emergence of the state and law. As a form of social consciousness, it is a direct and concentrated reflection of the socio-economic base and exhibits distinct class characteristics. Different legal thoughts reflect the interests and demands of different classes, strata, and social groups. In Chinese history, the legal thoughts of various classes, strata, and social groups are typically expressed by their representative figures or schools of thought. These representative figures and schools, especially those who played significant roles at the time or had a profound impact on later generations, constitute the main focus of the study of the History of Chinese Legal Thought. Therefore, the research object of the History of Chinese Legal Thought can be summarized as follows: The research object of the History of Chinese Legal Thought is the content, essence, characteristics, functions, evolutionary process, and developmental laws of the legal thoughts of various classes, strata, social groups, and their representative figures in Chinese history.
This book is guided by historical materialism, providing a systematic and detailed introduction and analysis of the history of the emergence, evolution, and development of legal thought in China from the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties to the modern era. It focuses on discussing the legal thoughts of the most representative figures in each historical period who had a profound impact on later generations. The intended readers of this book are undergraduate students of law in higher education institutions, as well as self-taught candidates for higher education.