中国民法现代化历程中的三个误区

清末民初开始的中国民法现代化历程,在确立平等、自由、秩序等现代民法精神,构筑当代民法制度发展基本脉络的同时,尚存有一些遗憾与不足,以下三个历史误区更值得关注:民法现代化初期的民法价值理念,不恰当地追随了西方的“权利社会化”思潮;民法现代化历程始终未能摆脱国家本位主义的阴影;民法制度的创制过度突出了“制定法”地位与“法律移植”的作用。为此,我们需要进一步反思这一百年的民法现代化历程之得失,以期重新展望、描绘更为美妙的民法现代化图景。

Three Mistaken Ideas during the Modernization of China's Civil Law

The modernization of China's civil law started from late Qing and the Early Republic Period.It established the souls of modern civil law such as equality,freedom and order and drew the outline for the development of contemporary systems of civil law.However there are three mistaken ideas which demand our attention.The concept of the value of civil law at that period followed the western trend of thought of Socialization of Rights.The shadow of national selfish departmentalism hung over the modernization of civil law all the time.During the establishment of the systems of civil law excessive stress were layed on the role of both Statute Law and Transplantation of Law.To look into the prospects of the modernization of China's civil law,we should reflect upon the gains and losses of the process of the modernization of civil law in the previous century.