Japanese Legal Scholars and Political Reformation During the Late Qing Dynasty

摘要

In this essay, I have examined the Sino-Japanese relations during the ten years immediately preceding the Qinhai Revolution from three closely related perspectives. The first is the frequency with which the elite of the two countries travelled to each country. The second is the translation of editorials written by the Japanese elite on the Qing reformations that were published in each of the Chinese newspapers. The third is that many of the exchange students in Japan returned to China where they played important roles in the social reformation occurring at the end of the Qing Dynasty. I have also closely examined the influence of the Japanese legal scholars on the Qing political reformations as they were extremely important figures in the cultural exchange between the two countries and furthered the transformation of modern Chinese thought and systems.