The Research On The Lu Zhengxiang’s Treaty View

Since the Opium War,western powers forced China to sign a large number of unequal treaties,and they broke the traditional Chinese order,built the modern Chinese and foreign treaty relationship,which brought the huge impact to Chinese thought.Treaty is the precondition and conditions of modern Chinese and foreign treaty relationship,Chinese awareness and claims of the treaty is the window understanding the modern Chinese and foreign treaty relationship.Examining the modern career diplomat who worked early with treaties,understanding his treaty concept,which helps to promote understanding of modern Chinese and foreign treaty relationship.Lu Zhengxiang is a famous diplomat in modern China,his diplomatic career spanned two periods,which were the Republic of China and the late Qing Dynasty.Lu Zhengxiang learned in two schools and accepted the relevant theory knowledge of treaties.Through Xu Jingcheng’s guidance,Lu Zhengxiang combined with his own diplomatic experience,his treaty view was perfect.Lu Zhengxiang’s understanding of treaty,included the concept,category and effectiveness of the treaty.And,Lu Zhengxiang had his own view on the purpose and procedures of the treaty signing,as well as the inequality of modern Chinese and foreign treaties.International law is closely related to the treaty.Lu Zhengxiang attached great importance to the role of international law,in the Hague Peace Conference and the Paris Peace Conference and other international conference occasion,Lu Zhengxiang used the rules of Public International Law to safeguard national interest.Modern times,Western powers grabbed a large number of treaties privileges by unequal treaties,Lu Zhengxiang exposed the dangers of unequal treaties privileges from the perspectives of Sovereign Rights and International Law.Further more,he strongly expressed desire,that Waste powers agreed to give up the unequal treaties privileges in China.In modern time,China demanded of repairing and abolishing unequal treaties,which is reasonable demand.of which,the Lu Zhengxiang expatiated the necessity of repairing and abolishing the unequal treaties,at the same time,he also expressed his own view on goals and position of repairing and abolishing the unequal treaties.In order to reach the goal,Lu Zhengxiang through sought powerful nation’s support in the treaty negotiations,he seized the favorable situation,and used reverse strategy to solve the problem.Through found the differences on treaty view between other diplomats to evaluate Lu Zhengxiang’s treaty view.