Full Description
This book focuses on the study of China's legal image in the Chinese legal tradition, taking Chinese classics as the carrier of the study of China's legal image, and provides a pioneering approach to the study of China's legal image through a comprehensive and interdisciplinary analysis of the spreading of ancient Chinese classics outside the region. The rich legal thoughts and profound political wisdom contained in the Chinese legal tradition have deeply influenced and shaped the contemporary Chinese legal culture. China's legal image has undergone twists and turns in western world for the past few centuries. This book intends to unveil the underlying causes and effects thereof, explore the construction of legal images in the process of the spreading of Chinese classics from different dimensions, and offer the world a way to understand the formation of China's extraterritorial legal images and the cultural origin of contemporary Chinese rule of law thought. It provides a feasible path for general readers and students of relevant majors and professions whoever wants to know better Chinese legal culture and legal philosophy and further understand Chinese rule of law concepts and culture in the New Era.
Contents
Chinese Legal Tradition.- Chinese Legal Classics and the National Image.- Visual Analysis of the Domestic Studies of Chinese Legal Classics Dissemination.- China's Legal Image in Western World.- Image Construction in the Ancient Chinese Code.- Image Construction through the Paratext of Chinese Legal Classics.- Image Construction through Ancient Chinese Legal Words and Terms.- Image Construction through the Traditional Culture.- Extraterritorial Spreading of the Source of Modern Legal System.- Self-shaping Strategies of China's Legal Image in the Classics.- Framework and Spreading Planning of the Chinese Legal Classics in the New Era.