12:30pm \u2013 2:00pm (HKT)<\/p>","photos":null,"venue":"
Online via ZOOM<\/p>","speaker_name":"
Prof. Wang Zhiqiang<\/p>","speaker":"
WANG Zhiqiang, Professor of Fudan University Law School. His research and teaching interests cover Chinese legal history and comparative law. He is the author of \u6cd5\u5f8b\u591a\u5143\u8996\u89d2\u4e0b\u7684\u6e05\u4ee3\u570b\u5bb6\u6cd5 [State Law in the Qing from a Perspective of Legal Pluralism] (2003; revised ed., 2017, \u6e05\u4ee3\u570b\u5bb6\u6cd5\uff1a\u591a\u5143\u5dee\u7570\u8207\u96c6\u6b0a\u7d71\u4e00), and the Chinese translator of The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial (by John H. Langbein). His articles and book chapters on Chinese and comparative legal history have been widely published in Chinese, English, Japanese and French. He served as the dean of Fudan Law School during 2017-2023, currently a member of the Board of Directors since the founding of the Int\u2019l Society for Chinese Law and History in 2014, a legal advisor for Shanghai Municipality. He participated in international research projects in Kyoto University, ENS de Lyon, and Max Planck Institute in Frankfurt. He holds degrees of LL.B. and LL.M. of Fudan, Ph.D. of PKU, LL.M. and J.S.D. of Yale.<\/p>","admission":"
https:\/\/cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk\/webform\/view.php?id=13742022<\/p>","enquiry":"
law@cuhk.edu.hk<\/p>","details":"
In the modern sense, law often refers to a coherent system of rules, a distinct branch of knowledge, a specialized professional community, and an institutionalized mechanism for resolving disputes. However, this conception of law\u2014centered on justiciability\u2014is not universally applicable across all cultures and historical contexts. From the perspective of social governance and normativity, this seminar provides a case study of a so-called \u201clawless\u201d traditional society such as imperial China that offers new insights into the conception of law.<\/p>\r\n
The seminar explores the forms of normativity that regulate people\u2019s lives and guide their actions in China from a historical perspective, while questioning conventional understandings of the distinctive features of the Chinese legal tradition. \u201cHeavenly Principles, National Law, Human Sentiments\u201d\u2014tianli, guofa, renqing\u2014may be seen as a characteristic representation of \u201claw\u201d in the Chinese mind, in which these are not understood as three separate normative orders. This conception differs from the Western distinction between law and morality. Reconsidering \u201claw\u201d in these terms invites us to reflect critically on the modern system of law, even of social sciences, and to trace the legacy of traditional normative ideas that remains deeply embedded in Chinese legal practice today.<\/p>\r\n
The seminar also warns that this does not mean romanticizing the past. The challenge, therefore, is to escape Western categories without retreating into cultural relativism. By placing different historical conceptions of law into dialogue, legal history may contribute to a more universally applicable jurisprudence.<\/p>\r\n
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https:\/\/www.law.cuhk.edu.hk\/app\/events\/greater-china-legal-history-seminar-series-the-chinese-conception-of-law-a-historical-perspective-by-prof-wang-zhiqiang\/<\/p>","intro":"","remarks":"
Language: English<\/p>\r\n
*CPD credits are available upon application and subject to accreditation by the Law Society of Hong Kong (currently pending).<\/p>","contact_information":{"contact_person":"Jay Wong","contact_number":"39430912","contact_email":"jaywong@cuhk.edu.hk","department":"Faculty of Law"},"content_migrated":false,"original_id":0,"photos_original":null,"original_contact_id":""},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2027-09-21 14:48:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"private","terms":[],"taxonomy":"post_tag","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/239767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/239767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239771,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/239767\/revisions\/239771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239767"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=239767"},{"taxonomy":"event_participants","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_participants?post=239767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}