Rediscovering the Historical Materials of Higher Legal Education in Xinjiang during the Period of the Republic of China(1912-1949)
The higher legal education in Xinjiang began with the Xinjiang Russian Law and Politics School in 1924,and was basically stagnant from 1936 to 1947.In 1948,Xinjiang Daily carried the news that"the Office of the Super-visor suggests that Xinjiang College should set up a Department of Law and Politics",and Tungnan Daily News re-printed a report of Xinjiang Daily saying that"Xinjiang College will add a Department of Law and Politics next se-mester,and will not admit new students from other provinces this year".Based on the analysis of the historical mate-rials of the above newspapers,this paper points out that the year of 1948 is an important time node that has long been neglected in the century-long history of higher legal education in Xinjiang.On the one hand,after a decade-long stag-nation,higher legal education in Xinjiang during the period of the Republic of China(1912-1949)started anew,and its difficulties and twists are evident;on the other hand,as an important profile,higher legal education in Xinjiang in 1948 reflected the influence of the supervisory power on the justice and education under the transformation of mod-ernization as well as the interaction between the power operation of the central government and that of the local gov-ernment,presenting the characteristics of a specific era and region.
Xinjiang during the Period of the Republic of China(1912-1949)Higher Legal EducationXinjiang Col-legeThe Office of the SupervisorDepartment of Law and Politics