A Study On The Role Of Law And Politics Personnel In The Transformation Of Legal System Of Late Qing Dynasty

The Law and Political Crash Course provided by Hosei University for the Chinese students from Qing Dynasty was the first of its kind, specially established for china in late Japanese History, which witnessed about1800Chinese students to attend from the4years between May,1904and April,1908, the names of1142of whom were recorded and could be traced, making it the biggest educators of Chinese law and politics personnel in Late Qing Dynasty.This thesis, focused on the study of Chinese students majored in law and political crash course, intends to make an analysis of the its education objective, teaching methodology, its advantages and disadvantages, and expound on the far-reaching influence of this teaching mode on the law and politics personnel in the modern period of china, through combing the material recording their study and life in Japan.As the early Chinese intellectual, who have access to the western law and politics theories, the graduates from Hosei University was entrusted with a mission spread the new knowledge to enlighten the people. Between1904and1911, they compiled and translated over200Japanese law and politics books including the four law and politics series, joined in the creation and compilation of many law and politics newspapers and for the first time systematically introduced the western law and politics theories into China, winning an irreplaceable position in the process of introduction of western laws from the western countries into china.Besides, the graduates of law and political crash course from Hosei University also played an active and extensive role in the transformations of late Qing Dynasty, making itself one of main forces pushing forward advance of china in the beginning of20th century.In order to make and comprehensive and detailed study, this thesis also adopted the method of case study, selecting some influential representatives of them, such as Yang Du, Song JiaoRen, Wang JingWei, Hu HanMing, Zhu ZhiXing, Ju Zheng, Shen JunRu, Tang HuaLong. A study of their activities in the historical transitions in Late Qing Dynasty reveals the transformation modes from the traditional gentlemen in Late Qing Dynasty to the enlightened intellectuals in early Chinese history and comes up with the interaction relationship between the law and politics personnel during the modernization process.