ZHANG Sheng (ed.), Chinese Legal History, Beijing: Contemporary China Publishing House, October 2024.

This book is a part of the "New Era Legal Education Series". Based on the textual research of Chinese legal historical materials, it gives a comprehensive introduction to the Chinese legal system from the Xia and Shang Dynasties to the period before the founding of the People’s Republic of China, describes and analyzes various legal phenomena such as legal thoughts, legal systems, legal events and legal figures in Chinese history, makes judgments on the evolution and value of legal order types, and summarizes the laws of development of legal systems. The curriculum of Chinese legal history mainly introduces students to the main legal thoughts, legal systems, legal operations and laws in Chinese history comprehensively and objectively, guides students to use the basic methods of Marxism to understand, analyze and evaluate legal phenomena in history, deepens their mastery of legal knowledge, improves their legal analysis ability, further builds their knowledge system of legal theory, and helps them to establish the belief in building a law-based socialist state with Chinese characteristics.