Opening Remarks for International symposium on Chinese Culture and
the Rule of Law and Annual Conference of China Society of
Legal History（Preface） .................................. Xia Yong / 1
Chinese Culture and the Modern Idea of the Rule of Law
Unforgettable Civilization
——Chinese Culture and the Rule of Law ................... Xia Yong / 5
Spirit of harmony in traditional Chinese culture
.................................... Zhou Ziliang and Qiao Shouzhong / 42
Multiple dimensions of traditional Chinese culture research ..... Zu Wei / 62
Traditional Chinese legal thinking and the modern
system of the rule of law ............................. Cui Yongdong / 77
“Original sin” of the law of China .......................... Ma Zuowu / 82
Ideal for the rule of law by the modern Chinese
legal elites ......................................... Zhang Renshan / 89
Cooling down the rule of law for constitutionalism .......... Gao Jishun / 104
Chinese tradition of judiciary and potential rules of
Chinese judicial powers ............................... Fan Zhongxin / 119
Chinese Legal system and Legal Civilization in China
Exploring precious heritage of Chinese legal civilization:
Some Tentative ideas on compiling Legal History of
Chinese Minority Nationalities ........................ Zhang Jinfan / 141
Comparison of legal systems and the developing
Chinese legal system ................................... Ni Zhengmao / 152
Similarity between continental legal system and Chinese legal system
............ Xu Xiangmin, Liu Yuanzheng, Zhang Hongjie and Chen Chen / 175
An analysis of the relationships between Kaihuang (开皇)
Code of Sui Dynasty and Buddhism ..................... Zhou Dongping / 184
Comments on four questions in the Tang Code ................. Wang Limin / 199
A Study of Article 92 of the Tang Code: Examination and
Assessment of Officials .................. ［UK］Geoffrey MacCormack / 210
Conditions and values of mortgage system from
the viewpoint of ancient Chinese law:
A concurrent study of the fortune of mortgage system
in the current Chinese legislation of property law .... Wang Mingsuo / 226
Legal History of Legal Disciplines
Property Rights and Business Investment in Late
Imperial and Early Republican China .......... ［US］Madeleine Zelin / 243
Chinese legal mechanism of commodity market
in early modern times .................................... Su Jilang / 253
Private agreement and dispute settlement:
analysis of 38 Huizhou(徽州) contractual
instruments in Ming Dynasty ............................. Han Xiutao / 259
Ancient Chinese civil law in the interaction of folk
law and state law ........................................ Bu Anchun / 276
Means for civil proceedings in Qing dynasty:
focusing on the Huangyan(黄岩) Records ............... Deng Jianpeng / 292
Crime of “seeking property from loanee by official”
and bribery by despots in Ming and Qing dynasties .......... Bai Hua / 311
Criminal law reform in late Qing dynasty
——emphasis on values of the draft criminal code of
the Qing Dynasty .................................. Gao Hancheng / 329
1954 Constitution in history: the text and the reality ..... Guo Shaomin / 343
Culture, Power and Globalization: China’s Changing
Approach to International Law ................ ［Australia］Ann Kent / 356
Investigation of customs and conventions in late imperial and
early republican China and Investigation Reports of
Civil and Commercial customs and conventions .... ［Japan］Siyinzhao / 371
Comparative study of Legal Culture and History in China and Other Countries
Legal Mercy in Chinese and Comparative Perspective
..............................................［Norway］Børge Bakken / 399
Sir Henry Maine’s work and the traditional legal systems
..............................................［Hungary］Gábor Hamza / 417
Between Law and Culture in the Leased Territory of Weihaiwei
...............................................［Malaysia］Carol Tan / 430
Selective Adaptation of Economic Governance Norms:
Transparency and Autonomy in Local Context
...........................................［Canada］Pitman B.Potter / 439
Review of Chinese culture and the rule of law in multiple dimensions:
Comments on 2005 international symposium on “Chinese Culture
and the Rule of Law” ................................. Gao Hancheng / 447
Postscript ............................................................. / 465
For quite a long time, people broadly accept that “the rule of law” comes from the western country, Chinese culture has never had a real sense of "rule of law". This book discussed “Chinese culture and modern rule of law, Chinese legal system and Chinese civilization, the comparison of Chinese and foreign legal culture and history”, then made in-depth study of Chinese law and culture and promoted the legal culture of China to the world, and expanded equality and effective communication between western legal cultures and others.
