Three Questions about Intensive Legal Education in the Late Qing Dynasty


 

 

Sun Jiahong, Three Questions about Intensive Legal Education in the Late Qing Dynasty, Beijing: Jiuzhou Press, December 2021.

 

During the period from 1905 to 1907, Hosei University in Japan set up an intensive legal course for students from China, thereby pioneering the intensive legal education in modern China. It played an important role in China's legal and social transformation in the past 100 years, and has been the focus of attention of and given high evaluation by scholars of history of modern legal education in China. This book bases itself on the results of previous research and utilizes historical data newly obtained in recent years to reflect on the causes, content and results of the intensive legal education in China since late Qing Dynasty from the perspectives of legal knowledge transformation, legal education, publications, etc., examining of the gains and losses, criticizing the chronical problems in research styles, and striving to arouse the attention of contemporary scholars to these issues.

 

The author of this book, Professor Sun Jiahong, was a master of history, a doctor of law, and a postdoctoral researcher in economics at Peking University, and a senior visiting scholar at the Collegium de Lyon, France. He has long been engaged in the study of Chinese legal history and is currently an associate research fellow at the Law Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.