Studies On Procuratorate Of Guangdong Province In The Early Republic Of China(1917-1926)

As the carrier of the prosecutorial system, prosecution services came into effect all over China in the late Qing Dynasty, along with introduction of this system. Though a boom once appeared after the founding of the Republic of China, the cause of prosecution services came to a grinding halt when the Beijing Government implemented the reduction and abolishment of national judiciary in 1914. In 1917, after Sun Yat-sen established the military government in Guangzhou as the guard for the new-born Constitution, two confronting regimes, North and South, came into being in China. Meanwhile, the judicial construction in Guangdong was cut off from the previous judicial system. However, the construction of prosecutorial system in Guangdong developed during the reign of the Southern Government, which could been proved by the rising number and the widespread network of the procuratorial organizations, by published of the criminal procedure law that improve the procuratorial organs to deal with the criminal cases. In the situation of regime division, Guangdong faced an unfavorable judiciary environment, which in result impaired the law enforcement power and efficiency of the prosecutors on one hand, affected the fulfillment of the effectiveness of prosecutorial system on the other. Nevertheless, the operating experience of the prosecution services in Guangdong during the Southern Government period at last became the reason for the change in the setting mode of the prosecution services and its integration into the judicial system for better management during the Nanjing National Government period.