The Late Qing Prison Scholar Wang Yuanzeng's Study Experience in Japan
In the era when Wang Yuanzeng was living and studying,China was in the period when the new deal of the late Qing Dynasty.It was the period when the modern transformation of Chinese prisons began,as well as the period when Chinese prison science was born and flourished in its early days.Wang Yuanzeng studied prison studies in Japan.He did not return home immediately after graduation,but imme-diately entered a Japanese prison for an internship.During his internship in a Japanese prison,Wang Yuan-zeng,as a guard,put into practice the theoretical knowledge of prison science he had learned,personally operated various specific practices,conducted research on the practice of Japanese prisons,wrote and pub-lished the internship experience into a series of articles on Japanese prisons.At the same time,the book Japanese Prison Practice was published.Wang Yuanzeng's experience of studying prison science and prison internships in Japan has laid a solid foundation for prison theoretical research and prison practical work.