Yang Honglie And The Study Of China’s Modern Legal History

Tremendous changes have taken place in China in the 20th century,especially in the field of history.Liang’s exclamation made the movement of "New Historiography"in full swing,when everyone was proud of saying "new".A lot of special history out from the situation of traditional historiography is suggested,and became an independent discipline,economics law,literature and so on various aspects of historical direction also gradually into the barriers of history,the Chinese legal history is one of them.Before entering Tsinghua Garden,Yang Honglie’s greatest academic research was that he closely followed Hu Shi,whom he regarded as his idol.At that time,most of his academic research also echoed Hu Shi’s work as a cry for literary revolution.In the second stage,he was admitted to Tsinghua Garden in 1926 to study legal history with Liang Qichao.In the following ten years,he successively completed three works:The Development History of Chinese Law,The History of Chinese Legal Thought and The Influence of Chinese Law on East Asian Countries.which established his academic status as a master of legal history.In the third stage of Yang Honglie’s academic career.after he entered the Wang puppet government in 1940,restricted by the poking of The Times,Yang Honglie had written occasionally,but his academic career had been interrupted.The works he produced had no academic value at all,and most of them were just written for the current situation with a tendency of "pro-Japan".After the founding of the People’s Republic of China,because of the "anti-rightist" trend,Yang Honglie also lost the opportunity to continue to engage in the study of legal history.With modern education popularization and promotion,the modern western legal thoughts into every Chinese mind,liang qichao exacerbate the steering a historical revolution,China’s legal field also occurred by the change of the "law of learning" to"law",advocating "cultural interpretation" of "new historiography" began to change the traditional proposition "scientific empirical legal studies,finally formed two rival.As Liang Qichao,the disciples Yang Honglie legal thought connotation is inherited the Liang Qichao’s understanding,he also after Liang Qichao,consciously into the ideas of"new historiography" in the field of traditional Chinese legal system history of positive representative,in his own legal historiographical works actively use nouns and the concept of western legal thought,implement the idea of "new historiography" in the field of traditional Chinese legal ground.Facing the social reality of modern political disappointment,different scholars of legal history in the period of the Republic of China conducted rich and detailed research on the "Chinese legal system" because of its nationalist stance.Yang Honglie also studied the modern "Chinese Law System" for practical reasons,and drew the conclusion that the space scope of "Chinese Law System" included Korea,Japan,Ryukyu,Annan.and the period of existence was from Yin and Shang Dynasty to the end of Qing Dynasty,which concentrated on showing the wide extension scope and long duration of "Chinese Law System".Moreover,the origin of the modern "new historiography" movement was the nationalism that yearns for the Chinese nation to stand up in the world under the domestic troubles and foreign aggression,and we can see his practice of "new historiography" more deeply from Yang Honglie’s demonstration of "Chinese law system".