Abstract
The study of Chinese legal history has undergone a tremendous change in the United States since the 1990s. Antiquated views and biased opinions of past decades have been rethought and criticized to a considerable extent. At the cutting edge of this new academic trend is the UCLA research group of Chinese legal history. Their scholarship as a whole exemplifies the features of what this article calls a “new Chinese legal history”—namely, conjoining the empirical (the extensive use of judicial archives in China) with the theoretical (drawing upon and dialoguing with well-established theories in social sciences), with the intention of formulating new and illuminating middle-level concepts. Moreover, their keen “historical sense” helps us understand the historical roots of contemporary problems, thus overcoming the epistemological problem of Chinese legal history studies often being regarded as useless.
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