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Western Law Goes East: The Construction of the Modern Chinese Legal System and Japanese Advisors
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2019
In the late Qing and early Republican era, China underwent an unprecedented transformation. Among its many undertakings, building a modern legal syste…
Prussian Constitution
· 2025
Comprising one hundred and nineteen articles. It is divided into nine chapters, including "Territory," "Rights and Duties of Subjects," "The King," "M…
An Account of Administrative Law in the Great Qing
· 2025
A study of the evolution of legal systems East and West, ancient and modern, shows that all begin with unwritten law, gradually change into written la…
On the Japanese Inspection System
· 2025
This volume originated in the winter of the Dingwei year, when Mr. Xu Jilong, Chief Prosecutor of the Capital High Procuratorate, convened procurators…
Collected Works of Zhang Qitai
The Commercial Press · 2022
As part of the Tongji Law Pioneers' Writings series, a collaborative project between our press and Tongji University Law School, The Collected Works o…
Between Criminal and Civil: A Study of the "Civilly Effective Part of the Current Law"
China Legal Publishing House · 2022
The “effective civil portion of the current criminal code” originated from the Qing Dynasty's Current Criminal Code, but at the legislative level the …
Treatise on the Preparatory Criminal Process, or Instruction and Indictment
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
A Study of the Legal System Reform of the Guangzhou and Wuhan National Governments
Zhonghua Book Company · 2021
Zhang Xipo (born 1927) is a leading Chinese jurist and a renowned scholar of legal history, specializing in the legal history of the modern era and of…