| As an unique politics phenomenon,the imperial edict prison play an important role on inspecting emperor aspects and ancient legislative work. The imperial edict prison refers to a jail to hold someone ordered by the emperor in China's feudal, it also refers to the case which was put on record under the emperor's order. Therefore, the imperial edict prison means the important case or a special jail under imperial order. The Western Han Dynasty has made the revision and the consummation in many system to keep the control, the very obvious aspect is the imperial edict prison system in Western Han Dynasty's being in vogue.At beginning,the imperial edict prison was used to strengthen the feudalism ruling of high-level management. For example,there were many punishment corrupt illustrative cases in ancient times. The imperial edict prison system had promoted the development of the consolidation of the family tyranny for the Western Han Dynasty. Also has attacked the illegal government official and safeguard the rule. But, the imperial edict prison system's development has departed from the original goal afterwards,it evolved into a specialness "the channel" for the emperor to attack the dissident influence personally and consolidates individual despotism rule. Zhang Fang Ping in "Le Quanji"criticized the the imperial edict prison was the main reason of the fading of Han, Tang Dynasty. The oldest historica record about the imperial edict prison's 1 "Han History Emperor Wen Discipline".The primary coverage and the structure of this article mainly include the following several spects.Chapter one, explication of the imperial edict prison. We will introduce the research condition, include various scholars about the imperial edict prison's academic viewpoint and the related imperial edict prison's meaning, the origin, the development process and so on. Chapter two, the evolution of imperial edict prison in Western Han Dynasty. It introduced the actual state of the imperial edict prison in Western Han Dynasty. we divide the Western Han Dynasty into three stages to choose has the representative case introduction the imperial edict prison occurrence. Afterward, this part also analyze the reason of the imperial edict prison's previal.Chapter three, the content ofthe Western Han Dynasty imperial edict prison. First analyze the properties of the imperial edict prison; then,we will research the person who involved the imperial edict prison; Finally we will research the involves case's charge question about the imperial edict prison.Chapter four,the processing system of the Western Han Dynasty imperial edict prison trial. This chapter is mainly study the Western Han Dynasty imperial edict prison case's unwritten system's stipulation,for example officials involved's arrest, the trial, the way of sentence and so on.We also study the management and assigns on giving favored treatment to the imperial edict prisoner,include the dfference of the imperial edict prison case and general case.Chapter five, other stipulations of the imperial edict prison. After the exposition in detail,we study the other provision which involves to the imperial edict prison case. First, we introduce the material amenities of the imperial edict prisoner of the Western Han Dynasty. Then, we study the death-rate of the imperial edict prison in Western to show the damage of the it.Chapter six, conclusion. This is the theory elaboration part in the article. We mainly expound the imperial edict prison theoretically, summarizes its essential history influence, tries to show the explanation of imperial edict prison in the anglepoint of view in law, history, cultural.Finally, the article also unifies reality of our country, infer the caution and revelation of the imperial edict prison regarding the present our country's development. |