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Part One Ancient Chinese Legal Civilization (c. 21st century B.C -- 1840 A.D.) -- Introduction -- The Origin of Chinese Legal Civilization -- the Legal System during the Xia and the Shang Dynasties (c. 21st century B.C.-c.11st century B.C.) -- The Developed Form of Chinese Legal Civilization in its Early Stage--the Legal System during the Western Zhou Dynasty (11st century B.C -- 770 B.C.) -- The Social Transformation and the Legal Changes -- the Legal System during the Spring and Autumn Period (770 B.C- 221 B.C) -- Laws are Omnipresent -- the Legal System during the Qin Dynasty (4th century B.C- 206 B.C) -- The Confucianization of Chinese Legal Civilization-- the Legal System during the Western and Eastern Han Dynasties (206 B.C-220 A.D. ) -- The Advancement of Legislation and the Great Cultural Integration-- the Legal System during the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties (220 A.D -- 581 A.D.) -- The Crystallization of Chinese Legal Civilization-- the Legal System during the Sui and the Tang Dynasties (581 A.D -- 907 A.D.) -- Chinese Legal Civilization during the Southern and Northern Song Dynasties under the Driving Force of the Commodity-based Economies (960 A.D -- 1279 A.D.) -- Changing the Age-old Way of Governing the Country -- the Legal System during the Yuan Dynasty (1279 A.D -- 1368 A.D.) -- The Final Form of Chinese Legal Civilization -- the Legal System during the Ming Dynasty (1368 A.D. - 1644 A.D.) -- The Final Form of Chinese Legal Civilization -- the Legal System during the Qing Dynasty (1644 A.D. - 1911 A.D.).

Introduction -- The Rise of the Ideological Trend of Updating the Legal System and Laws before and after the Opium War -- The Input of the Western Legal Culture and the Updating of Chinese Settled Legal Ideas (1840-1870s) -- "Chinese-style Westernization ": the Legal System during the Period of the Westernization Movement -- The Sprouting of the Constitutional Thoughts and the Constitutional Reform and Modernization (the second half of the 1800s - the late 1800s) -- The preparation for Constitutionalism in the Late Qing Dynasty and the Constitution -- The Emergence of the Contemporary Chinese Legal Civilization: the Modification of the Law during the Late Qing Dynasty -- A New Chapter in Chinese Criminal Law Civilization-- Criminal Law of the Great Qing Dynasty -- The Draft Civil Law of the Great Qing Dynasty Integrating with the Western Civil Law -- The Commercial Legislation Changing from restraining Business to Protecting Business -- The Reforms Ushering in the Judicial Civilization -- The National Program of Building a Democratic Republic and the New Epoch of Chinese Legal Civilization -- The Development and Devastation of Modern Chinese Legal Civilization during the Beijing Government Period (1912-1928) -- The Book of the Six Laws of Nanjing national government (1928-1949) -- Facilitating Chinese Legal Civilization during the New Democracy Period: building the Legal System of the Base Areas -- Contemporary Chinese Civilization (1949 - present) -- Introduction -- The Groundwork for the New Chinese Legal Civilization -- Constructing the Socialist Legal Civilization with Chinese Characteristics (1st) -- Constructing the Socialist Legal Civilization with Chinese Characteristics (2nd) -- The Historical Experience in Building the Socialist Legal System with Chinese Characteristics.

The book was first published in 1997, and was awarded the first prize of scientific research by the Ministry of Justice during the ninth Five-Year Plan of China. In 2005, it was adopted the text book for the postgraduates of law majors. In 2009, it was awarded the second prize of the best books on law in China. The book discusses from different aspects the long legal tradition in China, and it not only helps us to have a further understanding of Chinese legal system but also combines theories and practice and illustrate the modern legal transition which probes the history of Chinese legal system. As is known to us all, China is a country with a long legal history, which can be traced back to more than three thousand year ago. So the legal tradition of China has been passed down from generation to generation without any interruptions. This feature is peculiar to Chinese legal history which is beyond all comparison with that of other countries such as ancient Egypt, ancient India, ancient Babylon and ancient Persia. Through the study of Chinese legal history we can have a deeper understanding of the histories, features, origins and the transition of Chinese legal tradition. The Chinese legal tradition originated from China, and it is the embodiment of the wisdom and creativity of Chinese civilization. The great many books, researching materials, legal constitutions, archives, files and records of different dynasties in China have provided us with rare, complete and systematic materials to research. The book has a complete, systematic and detailed research on Chinese legal tradition and its transition and it gives people a correct recognition of the process of the perfection of laws during its development and its position as well as its value in the social progress in order to grasp its regular patterns. It also has showed us the most valuable part and core of Chinese legal Tradition and it is a summary of Chinese legal tradition and its transition from different perspectives, different angles and different levels. From the book, we can see that the ancient Chinese Legal Culture had once shocked the world and exerted great influence on the civilization of the world legal system, especially the legal systems in Asian countries. The book also has discussed the reestablishment of law in the late Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Chinese law's transition to modernity. In a word, the book has not only combined the legal system and the legal culture together, ...