INTERMIXTURE BY HISTORY: FOUR COMPONENTS IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA LEGAL SYSTEM

In last millennium, China underwent three large-scale conquests by external power and interruption of traditional Chinese culture, the most significant result of which has been the justification of elite rule by minority over majority, whose obedience to law was based on the compulsion of the law. In Chinese history, there happened frequent supersession of dynasties, each of which was ruled by one or more families. Many revolutionaries and reforms were a process of deprivation of property by military force or by political power. Traditional Chinese culture was to a large extent been eliminated. Present Chinese legal system became a blended entity. Compared with economic law, far less change was introduced to the reform of the constitution and the political system. Furthermore, Chinese legal system has closely intertwined with governance style of individual leaders. These characterize the contemporary Chinese legal system