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A Commentary on Private International Law in East Asia—From the Perspective of Chinese Law

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Codification in East Asia

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The authors arranged this article based on a history context. The first part of this article demonstrates the evolution of private international law in East Asia which contains the ancient China and Japan. After the narrative of the Asian history, the authors moved their viewpoint to modern East Asia. The third part of this article composed of five jurisdictions: Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan and China. Last, the authors summarized that: “private international law flourishes best in the jurisdictions which pursue foreign-oriented economy and free trade,” and suggested to adopt more active measures in order to promote the progress of private international law.

President and Professor of Law, China University of Political Science and Law(“CUPL”); President, China Society of Private International Law; Vice President, Chinese Society of Law.

Associate Professor of Law at CUPL; Deputy Director of the Institute of Private International Law of CUPL.

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  1. 1.

    See Jin Huang. 2005. Guoji Sifa [Private International Law].Beijing: China Law Press:1.

  2. 2.

    See L.S. Stavrianos.1999. A Global History: From Prehistory to the 21st Century. New Jersey: Prentice Hall: 223.

  3. 3.

    See Konrad Zweigert, and Hein Kötz.1998. Introduction to Comparative Law. Oxford, Clarendon Press: 286–294.

  4. 4.

    See Jin Huang. 2005. Guoji Sifa [Private International Law].Beijing: China Law Press: 12–15.

  5. 5.

    See Depei Han. 2000. Guoji Sifa [Private International Law].Beijing: China Higher Education Press: 1.

  6. 6.

    Albert Hung-yee Chen.2004. An Introduction to the Legal System of the People’s Republic of China. Hong Kong: LexisNexis: 14.

  7. 7.

    Jin Huang. 2004. Guoji Sifa [Private International Law].Beijing: China Law Press: 119.

  8. 8.

    Ibid.

  9. 9.

    See Friedrich K. Juenger. 2000. Choice of Law and Multistate Justice. New York: Transnational Publishers: 10.

  10. 10.

    Zhengxin Huo. 2011. Guoji Sifa [Private International Law].Beijing: University of International Business and Economic Press: 74.

  11. 11.

    Ibid.

  12. 12.

    Albert Hung-yee Chen.2004. An Introduction to the Legal System of the People’s Republic of China. Hong Kong: LexisNexis: 15.

  13. 13.

    See Mesheryakov, Alexander. 2003. On the Quantity of Written Data Produced by the Ritsuryō State. Japan Review 15: 187–199.

  14. 14.

    See Tarō Kawakami.1967. Nihon-koku ni okeru Kokusai Shihō no seise hatten [The Origination and Development of Private International Law in Japan]. Tōkyō: Yūhikaku, Shōwa: 18.

  15. 15.

    Masato DogauChi. 2008. Historic Development of Japanese Private International Law. In Japanese and European Private International Law in Comparative Perspective, ed. Jurgen Basedow et al., 28. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

  16. 16.

    The term “Hōrei” was used in ancient China in the Jin Dynasty (265–420) as the name of the general rules for its statutes; however, it had been forgotten in China and had never been used since the fall of the Dynasty.

  17. 17.

    Masato DogauChi. 2008. Historic Development of Japanese Private International Law. In Japanese and European Private International Law in Comparative Perspective, ed. Jurgen Basedow et al., 31. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

  18. 18.

    Koji Takahashi. 2006. A Major Reform of Japanese Private International Law, Journal of Private International Law 2: 311.

  19. 19.

    Masato DogauChi. 2008. Historic Development of Japanese Private International Law. In Japanese and European Private International Law in Comparative Perspective, ed. Jurgen Basedow et al., 31. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

  20. 20.

    See Brice Dickson.1985. The Reform of Private International Law in the Federal Republic of Germany. Int’l & Comp L.Q. 34: 231.

  21. 21.

    On the same day, the Bill of the Civil Code of Japan passed into Law (Act No. 9 of 1898).

  22. 22.

    Masato DogauChi. 2008. Historic Development of Japanese Private International Law. In Japanese and European Private International Law in Comparative Perspective, ed. Jurgen Basedow et al., 31. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

  23. 23.

    Id,., at 37.

  24. 24.

    Konrad Zweigert, and Hein Kötz.1998. Introduction to Comparative Law. Oxford, Clarendon Press: 291.

  25. 25.

    Guo Tinyi.2009. Zhongguo Jindai Shigang [A Brief of Modern Chinese History]. Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Press: 121.

  26. 26.

    Zhengxin Huo. 2011. Guoji Sifa [Private International Law].Beijing: University of International Business and Economic Press: 75.

  27. 27.

    See Jun Lu. 1998. Guojisifa zhi Lilun yu Shiji [Theory and Practice of Private International Law]. Beijing: China University of Political Science and Law Press: 331–334.

  28. 28.

    Juan Sheng. 2006. Guoji Sifa [Private International Law].Beijing: China Social Sciences Press: 48.

  29. 29.

    Id, at 49.

  30. 30.

    See Jin Huang. 2005. Guoji Sifa [Private International Law].Beijing: China Law Press:119.

  31. 31.

    http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2011/02/weodata. Accessed 10 March 2012.

  32. 32.

    See Masato DogauChi. 2008. Historic Development of Japanese Private International Law. In Japanese and European Private International Law in Comparative Perspective, ed. Jurgen Basedow et al., 37–38. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

  33. 33.

    Masato DogauChi. 2008. Historic Development of Japanese Private International Law. In Japanese and European Private International Law in Comparative Perspective, ed. Jurgen Basedow et al., 44. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

  34. 34.

    See Koji Takahashi. 2006. A Major Reform of Japanese Private International Law, Journal of Private International Law 2: 311–338.

  35. 35.

    Masato DogauChi. 2008. Historic Development of Japanese Private International Law. In Japanese and European Private International Law in Comparative Perspective, ed. Jurgen Basedow et al., 51–57. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

  36. 36.

    See Dogauchi M. 2007. New Private International Law of Japan: An Overview. Japan. Ann. Int’l L. 50: 3.

  37. 37.

    See Kwang Hyun Suk. 2003. The New Conflict of Laws Act of the Republic of Korea. In Yearbook of Private International Law, eds. Petar Sarcevic and Paul Volken, 99–141.The Netherlands: Kluwer Law Int’l.

  38. 38.

    Ibid.

  39. 39.

    Chin Kim.1998. The 1995 Private International Law Act of North Korea, Cal. W. Int’l L.J. 29: 205.

  40. 40.

    See http://www.investmongolia.com/law04.pdf. Accessed 21 March 2012.

  41. 41.

    TP Chen. 1987. Private International Law of the People’s Republic of China: An Overview. Am. J. Comp. L. 35: 445.

  42. 42.

    Zhonghua Renmin Gongheheguo Shewai Minshi Falvguanxi Shiyongfa, Act on the Application of Laws over Foreign-related Civil Relationships (2010) (PRC); Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Zhuxi Ling, Order of the President of The People’s Republic of China, No 36.

  43. 43.

    See Zhengxin Huo. 2011. An Imperfect Improvement: The New Conflict of Laws Act of the People’s Republic of China. Int’l & Comp. L.Q. 60: 1065–1093.

  44. 44.

    Id. at 1063–1093.

  45. 45.

    See Kwang Hyun SUK. 2013. Comparative Analyses of the Chinese Private International Law Act and the Taiwanese Private International Law Act: Korean Law Perspective. Guojifa Pinglun [International Law Review] 3: 23.

  46. 46.

    Dan Jerker, B.S., Svantesson. 2007. Private International Law and the Internet. The Netherlands: Kluwer Law Int’l:15.

  47. 47.

    Tu Guangjian. 2010 Aomen Chongtufa Tixi Pingjie [A Commentary On the Conflict-of-Law System in Macau], In Zhongguo Guojisifa yu Bijiaofa Niankan [Chinese Yearbook of Private International Law and Comparative Law], eds. Jing Huang et al., 544–545. Beijing: Peking University Press.

  48. 48.

    http://www.legislation.gov.hk/intracountry/eng/index.htm#macao, Accessed 12 April 2012.

  49. 49.

    See Xianglin Zhao 2011. Guoji Sifa [Private International Law].Beijing: China University of Political Science and Law Press: 522–530.

  50. 50.

    See Jurgen Basedow. 2008. Recent Development of the Conflict of Laws. In Japanese and European Private International Law in Comparative Perspective, ed. Jurgen Basedow et al., 10. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

  51. 51.

    See Switzerland’s Federal Code on Private International Law (1987).

  52. 52.

    See J.H.C. Morris. 1993. The Conflict of Laws. London: Sweet & Maxwell: 6.

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Huang, J., Huo, Z. (2014). A Commentary on Private International Law in East Asia—From the Perspective of Chinese Law. In: Wang, WY. (eds) Codification in East Asia. Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03446-1_18

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