华东师范大学(哲学社会科学版) ›› 2017, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (4): 102-111.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2017.04.014

• 法律研究 • 上一篇    下一篇

中国近代成为大陆法系国家的原因及相关问题探析

王立民   

  1. 华东政法大学法律学院教授 上海, 201620
  • 出版日期:2017-07-15 发布日期:2017-07-14
  • 作者简介:王立民,华东政法大学法律学院教授、博士生导师(上海,201620)。

One Longtime Overlooked Factor Leading to the Adoption of Civil Law System in Modern China

WANG Li-min   

  • Online:2017-07-15 Published:2017-07-14

摘要: 中国近代大量移植大陆法系国家法律,并最终成为大陆法系国家的一个重要原因是中国不是英国的殖民地国家。这个原因长期被忽视,因此有必要加以重视,并进一步推进中国近代大量移植大陆法系国家法律并成为大陆法系国家原因的研究。中国近代虽被英、美等西方列强入侵,也被迫签订过不平等条约,但从整体上看,中国并没有成为英国的殖民地国家,逃脱了被强制移植英国法并成为英美法系国家的命运。近代中国的香港、威海卫租借地和英、美租界等一些被英、美入侵的区域也被移植过英美法系国家的法律,但这只存在于部分区域,没有改变中国是大陆法系国家的性质。与中国近代大量移植大陆法系国家法律并成为大陆法系国家相关,还有一些问题值得关注,这其中有:中国近代移植大陆法系国家法律是一种非强制性移植;英美法系国家法律比大陆法系法律复杂成为其被强制性移植的一个重要原因;大陆法系与英美法系国家的法律移植后的生命力都很强等。

关键词: 中国近代史, 法制近代化, 英美法系, 大陆法系, 英国殖民地

Abstract: Modern China, with civil law adopted in large quantities, became a civil law country. An important reason for this is that China was not a British colony. If China were a British colony, a large number of British laws would have been transplanted and thus China would have become a common law country. This reason has long been overlooked. Therefore, it is necessary to study the large scale of legal transplants from civil law countries as a reason for the transformation of modern China into a civil law country. Despite the invasion of Britain and the United States in modern China and the imposition of unequal treaties, China in large, except Hong Kong, the leased territory of Weihaiwei and some concessions, did not become a British colony so that it avoided the enforced transplantation of British laws. Some other issues worthy of attention: the adoption of civil law system in modern China was non-mandatory; with comparison to civil law, the greater complexity of common law was an important reason for its imposition; both civil law and common law are vigorous after transplant.

Key words: modern history of China, the modernization of law, common law system, civil law system, British colony