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International Law

Abstract

Law is not something new in China. It is generally believed that the history of Chinese law spans more than four thousand years.1 But in terms of a modern concept of law and a modern legal system, law is really something new: something the Chinese people have started to reevaluate and treat as a newly-found treasure. Now, the people are striving to establish law as a new device or mechanism to run the country after more than two thousand years of feudal society, and the disaster of the "Cultural Revolution." By examining their past experience and comparing their development with that of other countries, the Chinese people realized painfully that their development was behind that of the developed countries in many fields, including that of law. China then began to develop its own idea of law and endeavored to establish a sound legal mechanism which could assure a smooth course of development and modernization even with changes of leaders and their personal opinions and emphases, in order to avoid sudden changes and interruptions introduced by the whims of some leaders without due process of law

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