The birth and growth of modern jurisprudence in China

This paper relates the birth and growth of modern jurisprudence in China, summarizes several representative works on modern jurisprudence, such as The Development History of China’s Jurisprudence, and describes the features that characterize the process of its birth and growth, so as to systematically explore the formation and development of China’s modern jurisprudence from the revision of law in late Qing Dynasty to the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, and to prove that modern jurisprudence is the starting point and cornerstone for contemporary jurisprudence and the source of its development and prosperity in China. __________ Translated from China Law, No. 3, 2005