Shendaily And The Western Legal Cultural Diffusion(1912-1916)

Media and justice are two important forces of maintaining social fairness andjustice.The ultimate goal of the media and the justice is in order to achieve our socialharmony.Media freedom,judicial justice and social harmony are complementary toeach other.In the course of building a harmony society in China today,how to thinkabout the realation of media and the justice,how to make the media and the judicialreach to the balance of the benign interaction.What is worth to our pondering anddiscussion.How to perfect and improve the contemporary judicial system,is that wehave to face in the social transformation period.Thus, the reflection for hundreds ofyears ago, the period of the republic of China to the modern transition of Chinesetraditional legal system is of great historical significance and realistic value.Eastwardspread of western culture in modem China，the western legal cultures began to spreadin China,as the main disseminators of western legal culture,missionaries, westernbusinessmen, foreign students have played an important role in translating lawbooks,establishing legal schools and starting modern publication. Modern newspapers andperiodicals are an important medium of dissemination of western culture.In numerousnewspapers and magazines,because of its unique media smell and businessphilosophy, Shendaily has an important role in the spread of western legal culture.In1912,the establishment of nanjing temporary government of the republic ofChina,opened a new era of China’s bourgeois democratic legal system.1912-1916isthe establishment of the republic of China initial stage,is formulated and promulgatedimportant period of the new law.During this period,as a representative of the print ofthe "Shendaily","Shendaily" is the important carrier of the spread of western legalculture."Shendaily",by setting the legal culture column,serializing judicialcase,publishing laws and regulations,and so on,spreaded the western legalculture.During this period,the focus of the spread of western legal culture "Shendaily"from Anglo-American law system into the Continental law system,publicity ofwestern bourgeois legal culture. At its early stage, Shendaily, which spreads theculture of western jurisdiction, is featured by contemporaneity and Inheritance.In thisperiod,Shendaily decared western advanced civilization of the judicial system andjudicial philosophy strongly.Such as,jury system,lawyer system, trial system and constitutional system, the independence of the judiciary system and the legality ofhumanitarian ideals.Spreading the advanced civilization of the western legalculture,Supervising the judicial practice, communicating the upper decision makerswith the lower people,and Promoting the Chinese legal system modernizationprocess.Learn west legal cultures,what Shendaily spreads in an all-round manner willbe helpful for we have a better understanding of the relationships between media andjustice，a better grasp of the traditional Chinese legal system on the path to themodernization transformation process.