“白尔丁号事件”与法国在华治外法权的废除

The Emile Bertin Incident and the Abolition of the French Extraterritoriality in China

二战结束后,中法围绕处置在华战犯问题爆发了一场治外法权存废之争,并由此导致了"白尔丁号事件"。借助战后高涨的民族主义热潮,中国政府迫使法国政府在中法新约签署前关闭了在华领事法庭,随即两国签署了中法新约,彻底终结了法国在华治外法权的历史。"白尔丁号事件"不仅反映了战犯审判问题的复杂性,也折射出近代以来中国争取民族独立道路上的曲折性。中国政府处理"白尔丁号事件"的过程,事实上也成为一次主权宣示行动。法国相关研究者的个别结论不无可商榷之处。

After the end of World War II,due to the issue of war criminals in China,China and France had a debate about the extraterritoriality and eventually led to a diplomatic crisis, the Emile Bertin Incident. Supported by the domestic nationalism,the Chinese government impelled the French government to close its consular courts in China before the SinoFrench Treaty in 1946. Immediately after that,the Treaty was signed and officially ended the French extraterritoriality in China. The Emile Bertin Incident not only illustrated the complexity of the trial of war criminals but also shows the difficulty that China faced during the process of obtaining national independence since its modern time. The process in which the Chinese government dealt with this incidence was also an action to demonstrate the Chinese sovereignty.