On The Reasons Of Failure About Legal Reformin The Late Qing Dynasty

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the government had a large range of legal reform. It abolished the feudal law which existed thousands of years in China, and formulated a series of laws following the Western bourgeois laws. It is a major reform in the history of Chinese legal system, and it has far-reaching influence. This legal reform died with the collapse of the Qing Dynasty. Many scholars’ studies focus on the reasons of failure about the legal reform. In recent years, great changes have taken place for the scholars in the history, values, research method and so on. They put forward many new ideas, making a full range of analysis about the failure of this legal reform from various angles. The author believes that the failure of the legal reform in Late Qing is not some artificial, accidental factors, but because of the reasonable conflict of political, economic, culture and the social environment. This article analysis based on the previous research results, and focus on the perspective of politic, economic, and the social environment. And then put forward some reasonable proposals for the construction of the legal system today according to the experience and lessons of the legal reform in Late Qing.Specific structure of this article is as follows: The first chapter, introduce the origin of the legal reform in late Qing Dynasty; the second chapter, analysis the reasons of the failure of the legal reform comprehensive, it is divided into four parts: politic, economic, culture and the diversiyy of ideology; the third chapter, put forward some suggestions according to the analysis of the failure of legal reform in late Qing Dynasty and the actual construction of the legal system in China.