皇权政治与清末法律近代化

The Politics of Imperial Power and Modernization of the Legislation and Law in the Qing Dynasty

晚清法律移植打破了中华法系的固有传统,古老的中国开始了法律近代化的艰辛历程。然而,法律近代化并非仅仅是纸面规则的近代化,它必须是当时社会的深刻而真实的反映。从政治权力结构而言,晚清的社会并没有产生政治民主化的土壤,法律近代化与传统的皇权政治实际上成了一对悖论。

The Loaning of legislation and law in the late Qing Dynasty broke the conventional tradition of Chinese law system. The ancient China began to thorny course of modernizing its legislation and law. However, the modernization of law is not merely a modernization of rules and orders in paper. It must deeply reflect the social reality of the then society. From the perspective of the structure of political power, the society of the late Qing Dynasty did not provide necessary foundation for the political democracy. The modernization of legislation and law and the politics of imperial power turned to be a paradox.