Research on the Criminal Justice Reform in the Late Qing Dynasty: A Perspective on the Modernization of China's Criminal Procedure System

Author: You Zhi'an
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book systematically and profoundly discusses the reasons, process, and impact of the criminal judicial reform in the late Qing Dynasty from the perspective of the modernization of China's criminal justice system. The significant differences between traditional Chinese and Western legal cultures and litigation systems have led to an increase in litigation conflicts between China and the West. Under the influence of various complex factors—especially the Western powers forcing China to grant extraterritorial rights to their consuls with military backing—the Qing government initiated modern criminal judicial reforms, establishing modern criminal judicial institutions, formulating modern criminal procedure codes, introducing modern criminal procedure law theories, and laying a crucial foundation for the modernization of China's criminal justice system. This book is a specialized work that systematically studies the criminal judicial reform in the late Qing Dynasty and offers certain reference value for the current judicial reform in China. It is a specialized work on the criminal judicial reform in the late Qing Dynasty, discussing the reasons, process, and impact of the reform from the perspective of the modernization of China's criminal justice system.