On the Style, Content and Reconstruction of Chinese Legal History Textbooks
Guoqiang Liu · Journal of Nanyang Normal University · 2009
Chinese legal history is a basic course of the law major in universities,whose task is to carry for ward the traditional Chinese legal culture and cultivate legal talents with profound knowledge of traditional Chinese legal culture.However,the present teaching style and content of this course can not fully meet the requirements of passing down cultural heritage and training qualified legal talents.The existing problems are as follows: the history of legal systems is separated from the history of legal philosophies in the textbook,which artificially cuts off their organic connection;the curriculum of this course is compiled in a dynastic style,which is disorderly and unsystematic;the content of the textbook is out-dated,etc.There are several ways of recon-structing the course,for example,integrating the history of legal systems with the history of legal philosophies,adopting the compiling style of general introduction and specific explanation,updating the book with new legal developments including the legal systems and legal theories of the new China,further eliminating the impact of left-wing class concept in order to fully reflect and embody the traditional legal content which can be used for reference in the reconstruction of Chinese legal history textbooks,etc.