China’s Traditional Legal Order: Narrating Law across Civilizations

Hiroaki Terada, Emeritus Professor at Kyoto University, is a prominent figure in Japanese-Chinese legal history studies. He researched Qing Dynasty land law, the foundation of civil court judgments, and the role of statutory law in criminal trials. Ultimately, he introduced the concept of ＂non-rule-based law＂ or ＂public opinion-oriented law＂ in the context of Chinese law, which had a significant impact on the academic communities in both Japan and China