清末法律改革何以如此艰难

Why Was Legal Reforms so Difficult in the Late Qing Dynasty?

鸦片战争以后,国家处在危亡之际,清政府进行了史无前例的全方位的法律改革,开启了中国法律近代转型的历史航程。由于内忧外患的紧迫形势,变法图强成为第一要务,而对法律自身的发展规律关注不够,清末法律改革进行得非常艰难。由于不是社会内部力量的推动,而是在社会外部力量的冲击下被迫进行的一次改革,造成了法律与传统文化契合的艰难。自从清代法律改革,中国法律近代化、现代化已演绎百余年,直到今天,如何实现中国传统文化与中国法律现代化之间的对接、契合,仍然是我们必须面对的重大理论、实践课题。

After the Opium War, China is in peril on the occasion. Qing government implemented an unprecedented comprehensive legal reform, opening the historical range of modernization of Chinese law on the transformation. Under the pressing internal and external situation, reforms in order to a strong country is the top priority, while the development of the law is not concerned, so the late Qing legal reform is very difficult. As it is not within the community forces, but in the impact of social external forces , the legal reform had a difficult fit with the traditional culture. Since the late Qing legal reform,modernization of Chinese law has lasted over a hundred years. Even today, how to achieve the fit between the China＇s traditional culture and modernization of China＇s law is still an important theoretical and practical issue we have to face.