在中国,围绕法律的传统与移植问题的讨论,始终与如何迎接西欧现代文明的挑战这一政治抉择密切相连,人类基本价值、制度学理以及操作技术层面的思考或多或少反倒被掩蔽了。无论如何,自1840年鸦片战争起的一个半世纪,中国对法律制度的变革,我认为大体上可以分为五个阶段。 In China, discussions on the tradition of the law and transplantation have always been closely linked with the political choice of how to meet the challenge of modern civilizations in Western Europe. The basic human values, institutional theories and operational techniques are more or less concealed. In any case, for a century and a half since the Opium War of 1840, China's legal system reform, I think, can be divided into five stages in general.