Shendaily And The Western Legal Cultural Diffusion(1906-1911)

1906-1911 was not only the period of"preparation for constitution"in the late Qing Dynasty,but also an important stage to enact and promulgate new laws. During this period, newspapers have become an important carrier of Western legal cultural diffusion. Shendaily as the most influential newspapers at that time, made itself into the discussion of Chinese and Western legal culture actively,after completed the conversion of own role,especially introduced and promoted a great deal of Western legal culture. Shendaily has increased the concern of Western legal culture by the setting the tab, and its focus is also from the common law to civil law, disseminating of a large number of modern Western Modern bourgeois ideology of legal principle. At the same time, Shendaily disseminated the Western bourgeoisie legal culture vividly by publishing a large number of judicial cases. more important, Shendaily from the perspective of public opinion participated in the formulation of new laws in the late Qing Dynasty actively.on the one hand, Shendaily pointed out the deficiencies of the Qing government in the process of reform of the constitutional and legal, on the other hand,Shendaily made a great deal of positive and reasonable proposal for the formulation of new laws, promoted the constitutional and rule reform movement of the Qing government benefitly. During this period, Shendaily's review of Western legal culture has become obvious reasonable, was no longer simply introducing publicing and reviewing the law of modern western legal culture,but it should be effective in screening, strengthening the discussion of jurisprudence. In line with China's own legal system in modern times, Shendaily also took the eyes on the east world and concerned about the Japanese in a time which has the manner of the West. Shendaily begang to put its focus on Chinese traditional legal cultural exchange and integration with the spread of Western culture to absorb the same time, which is a major progress for the print media in the modernization of China's legal system .1906-1911,Shendaily for the spread of Western legal culture, has strong features of the times and changes. Shendaily spreaded a great deal of modern Western bourgeois leagal ideology and principles of law, such as national sovereignty, the separation of powers, protection of civil rights, equality before the law, the presumption of innocence, judicial independence, counsel, public trial, and so on, has played an important role in guiding for the late Qing legislation, Judicial practice. Another, in the Government's constitutional and legal reform process, Shendaily has always been based on the freedom of the news, public opinion of independence, correctly guide the transformation of the legal system in the public opinion, promoted the rule of law in the Western bourgeois concept of human rights, made the Western knowledge of modern legal culture universal, updated the people's traditional concept of the rule of law, played a very important role than other carriers can not be replaced. Only though understanding of Shendaily and the Western legal cultural diffusiong correctly and comprehensively, can help us to grasp the the mass media's historical significance in modern times in China's legal system in the process and the role which newspapers played by.