In the early days of the introduction of Western law to the East,the late Qing scholars,represented by Kang Youwei,adopted the established practices of the Western missionaries,held a concept of comparing the Chinese pre-Qin clas-sics with the Western public law of nations in order to reconstruct a new universalist worldview by drawing on the legal and po-litical thought of the pre-Qin dynasty,and ultimately to cope with the"invasion"of Western colonial knowledge of moderni-ty.After a century of silence,contemporary scholars of international relations and international law have continued this intel-lectual tradition with the rise of China,and the logic behind the pre-Qin view of public international law has been rediscovered and invoked in order to effectively contribute to the localization of their respective disciplines at the academic level,while at the political level providing a more equitable vision of the world for a society that has entered the post-modern era.A systematic review of the century-long invocation of pre-Qin legal and political thought by China's intellectual elite can provide inspira-tion for the current projection of a new conception of Chinese international relations/international law,which is inevitably crea-ted through traditional resources.
Pre-Qin Legal and Political ThoughtInvocationPre-Qin View of Public International LawT'ien Hsia TheoryModernity
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