Imperial Power And Law:Research On The Question Of Liu Guangdi

The Qing Dynasty was the era when China’s traditional laws developed to the final and most complete state,but this era was also the era when the authoritarian system developed to its peak.In this era,the relationship between the imperial power and the law was not the same as the past point of view that it was imperial power that completely dominated and suppressed the law,in fact,there was a more complicated interaction between the imperial power and law.Although the imperial power in the Qing Dynasty was extremely large,but it was restricted by the law,and the development of the imperial power showed the trend of institutio nalization and legalization,and the complete laws and imperial power formed a special order.This order was neither imperial overwhelming,subordinated the law,nor is the law having a normative restriction on imperial power,and the relationship bet ween imperial power and law had showed the kind of counterbalance each other in the longer-term historical period.Under this dynamic observation of the order,the relationship between imperial power and law was not only a simple stable order,but a process of transformation from stability to turbulence as far as collapse.In this process,one historical period and another period were not isolated or divided,but successive.The background of Liu Guangdi’s question was precisely in the process from turbulence to the collapse of the order.The question of Liu Guangdi happened in The 1898 Coup was Liu Guangdi’s questioning of the execute officer on the time of the execute of the six person of noble character of Wuxu Year,the question was about three aspects of procedure,ancetors’ system,national framework,ask why executed them without trial.In the Qing Dynasty,the Chinese traditional legal system developed to the final stage,which was also a highly centralized dynasty,and in this period,the imperial authority and the law formed a special order,and the question of Liu Guangdi should be carried out under the legal order of the imperial authority first of all.This article starts from Liu Guangdi’s question to Gangyi as the officer of execution,based on using the research path of “small narrative and grand vision”,through the analysis of the question of Liu Guangdi,and the relationship between the imperial power and the law in the end of the Qing Dynasty will be made clear by the use of the research results.Secondly,the transformation of the relation between imperial power and law from the balance to the final collapse of the late Qing Dynasty is the inevitability of the system transformation in the late Qing Dynasty.In addition,it is also an important foundation to answer Liu Guangdi’s question in the different narrative system and the comparison of different cases of narrative.Liu Guangdi’s question is not only the question of execution without trial but also in the context of institutional change.The article is divided into three parts,the first part is the introduction,mainly introduces the reasons,the research status and the research methods.The second part is the theme of the article,three chapters.The first chapter introduces the background of Liu Guangdi’s questioning and clarifies the roles and historical facts involved in the issue.The second chapter introduces the legal issues in the process of Liu Guangdi’s question,and also observes the problem from the perspective of law.The third chapter reanalyzes the relationship between imperial power and law in Qing Dynasty from the perspective of evolution of the institution.The third part is the conclusion,which mainly reviews the institutional analysis and narrative analysis of the article and puts forward the prospect.