Xiaobo Dong – författare

By making a comprehensive and interdisciplinary analysis on the translation history of both the ancient Chinese legal classics and the modern laws and regulations, this book presents a full picture of development of Chinese legal translation.  Legal translation in China has undergone twists and turns in the past and always lacked a systematic and comprehensive theoretical framework. Therefore, guided by the language planning theory, this book intends to build a theoretical framework for study and practices of legal translation in the New Era and provide a feasible path for general readers, students of relevant majors, and professionals interested in Chinese legal culture to get a refreshed understanding legal translation and legal culture promotion. 

This book focuses on the study of China’s legal image in the Chinese legal tradition, taking Chinese classics as the carrier of the study of China’s legal image, and provides a pioneering approach to the study of China’s legal image through a comprehensive and interdisciplinary analysis of the spreading of ancient Chinese classics outside the region. The rich legal thoughts and profound political wisdom contained in the Chinese legal tradition have deeply influenced and shaped the contemporary Chinese legal culture. China’s legal image has undergone twists and turns in western world for the past few centuries. This book intends to unveil the underlying causes and effects thereof, explore the construction of legal images in the process of the spreading of Chinese classics from different dimensions, and offer the world a way to understand the formation of China’s extraterritorial legal images and the cultural origin of contemporary Chinese rule of law thought. It provides a feasible path for general readers and students of relevant majors and professions whoever wants to know better Chinese legal culture and legal philosophy and further understand Chinese rule of law concepts and culture in the New Era.

This book lays a more solid cognitive foundation for interaction between the international community and China. From a historical and cultural perspective, this groundbreaking book provides an in-depth exploration of the integration of traditional Chinese legal thought with modern concepts of the rule of law. Written by a leading interdisciplinary research team of legal and legal history experts in China, this book not only offers profound insights for legal professionals, but also opens a window for ordinary readers to understand the development path and historical-cultural roots of China''s rule of law. As China''s global influence grows, its profound legal culture, imbued with unique governance experience and wisdom, is also shaping the world. 

This book systematically explores the historical development, connotation, characteristics and cultural resources of Chinese rule of law path based on the combination theory and practice. It also comprehensively reveals the overall objectives and promotion models of Chinese rule of law path, theoretically expounds the people-oriented nature of Chinese Thought on the Rule of Law and the global initiatives of Chinese rule of law path, and proposes the important guarantee of realizing the global initiatives of Chinese rule of law path——the cultivation of foreign-related rule of law talents. From this book, readers, not only scholars and experts specialized in relevant fields but also layman interested in legal life of modern China, can truly grasp the rich connotation of the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics in the new era and have a refreshing understanding of contemporary legal culture of China.

By integrating different research angles and methods of philosophy of law, sociology of law, applied linguistics, and legal translation, this book presents a groundbreaking approach to the non-standardization phenomenon in Chinese legislative language, unveils the underlying causes and adverse effects thereof, and provides potential principles, strategies, and methods to be followed in the standardization of Chinese legislative language. Divided into three parts, this book firstly talks about the fuzziness of language, addressing both the active and negative influences thereof on the legislation; secondly approaches the non-standardization phenomenon in Chinese legislative language from the perspective of philosophy of law; and thirdly offers a comprehensive studies on the standardization of Chinese legislative language, offering possible solutions to address the above-mentioned problems and promote the standardized development of law making. This book facilitates the legal practitioners, jurists, law students, legal translators as well as the non-experts to get a better understanding of the mechanism and process of legislation and improve their skills and capacities in apprehending and translating Chinese laws and regulations.