History of Chinese Legal Thought (21st Century Court Studies Series)

Author: Li Guilian
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: This book is an adult teaching material for higher legal education. As a teaching material, it must adhere to certain standards. This standard is to comprehensively and systematically elaborate the basic content and basic knowledge of the discipline. From a legal perspective, the History of Chinese Legal Thought is a branch of legal studies in China; while from a historical perspective, it is a specialized history within the history of Chinese historiography. Therefore, it is an interdisciplinary field that intersects law and history. To adapt to the learning needs of adult education, this book has the following characteristics:
First, citations are preferably expressed in plain language. Adult learning has its unique characteristics, and the book uses plain language for most citations of ancient literature, except for a small number that require original expressions.
Second, emphasize the important and de-emphasize the less important. Every discipline has its key content; otherwise, it would not qualify as a science. The History of Chinese Legal Thought is the history of "thought." Legal thought history is no exception. This book highlights the thoughts of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, as well as the modern period after the Opium War in 1840. China experienced a long feudal society during this time. Social structures became relatively stable, and thoughts were comparatively rigid. In terms of legal thought, there was less originality and more elaboration on the ideas of predecessors. Therefore, the book reduces the content of this period, which is to say, de-emphasize the less important.