"Xinjiang University law school thirty anniversary anthology" sequence

He Weifang

During the Spring Festival, Dean of the Law School of Xinjiang University, Professor Qin Peng wrote to me, said to mark the thirty anniversary of the law school complex do, they published a Festschrift, and hopefully I will be able to write a preface to this book. This is a great honor, I thought to myself, not qualified, Tuici repeatedly, but he said that because I have been teaching for a year at the Shihezi University, has two views of a outsider and insider advantage for the observation study of law and legal education in Xinjiang, was supposed to have some unique perception. Fail to beat my old classmates, but is trying to do, write some advice.

Xinjiang belongs to the border, many people put geographical edge most probably it did not actually happen as the edge of the culture. However, Xinjiang is a unique place. Not long ago I read a famous historian Mi Huajian America Central Asia "Europe Asia: history of Xinjiang" (crossroadsJames A. Millward,Eurasian: A History of XinjiangPress 2007, Columbia University), feeling a lot. The author regarded Xinjiang as connecting the Eurasian civilizations (Han, India, Greece, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, western, Russian and socialism and so on) hub. As we all know, a civilization vitality comes from the communication between heterogeneous cultures; long - closed adequacy of a nation's creativity and imagination asphyxia. So, from the perspective of culture, Xinjiang is located in the edge because of various civilizations staggered, but become a regional center, is the intersection fusion excitement, is the cultural creation of DreamWorks, is rebuilding civilization experimentation area. From the Stein cultural relics, we see India and the Greek style coexist gods. The Uygur language there are many from Russian and Chinese "foreign words", at the same time, the Chinese word for the number of very group of Uyghur transliteration words (such as "bazaar", "Lang", "skin teeth"). Architecture, painting, diet has you have me, I have you.

I'm here to teach, always pay attention to read about in modern Xinjiang relevant data dissemination of christianity. An interesting phenomenon is, in the most firmly in the Islamic belief in the region, some western especially the Swedish missionaries made extremely hard and bitter efforts, can be said to be almost all the mountains heart, but to persuade people to Christianity gained nothing. Say, people are so enthusiastic in southern Sweden missionary, perhaps with a later proved to be false claims about.1710Years, the French Orientalist Kruwa (Petis de la Croix) mentioned in the "history of Gen Gi A Khan" in one book, Mark Polo visited Kashi gar, also added surprising words: "the Swede is derived from the city." According to the Swedish scientist Gunnar Yalin (a famous contemporary TurkicGunnar Jarring) research, this is the initiator of evil is the Swedish traveler Siba Winfield (be wealthy in knowledgeJohan G. Sparwenfield). Although the falsification of academic research was serious this statement, but it still inspire many Swedes on the Kashi and Xinjiang's strong interest. Sweden established Kashi Gar mission, the missionaries missionary work, and hospitals, schools, printing, to the secular nature of the charitable and cultural communication. The missionary in Kashi for more than thirty years (Haug BergLars Erik H ö gbergWith skilled and Sermons), and doctor, carpenter and architect. The famous British Consulate General in Kashi is his masterpiece. This is commonly known as "Qin, buck" or "Chinese garden" of the building reflects the combination of a variety of styles, some of the senior building decoration materials directly from the purchase, alleged that may be between Xinjiang and Sweden's first single trade.

Needless to say, the cultural fair is not always in a cordial and friendly atmosphere, but also accompanied by the conflict, even war, killing, destruction and its legacy of estrangement and hatred. The history of Xinjiang has many faults, Central Asian history experts in an attempt to describe the details of the history before eighteenth Century, often frankly admitted, it is difficult to obtain enough material, like a jigsaw puzzle, lost many, many pictures but still. This of course, with frequent fighting successive distresses as caused by continual wars experience here. Ancient Rome saying that "guns were silent (method"Inter ARMA silent legesIndeed, the war of the rule of law); cause the most serious injury. Political instability leads to good legal order is not easy to form, the law without a good legal order is very difficult to breed developed. In this vast land, we can see the different ethnic groups in the objects, the concept and language level has a lot of fusion, but, in the legal system has made little progress, achievements in the cause of small.

In this context, we can rethink the Xinjiang University law school achievement and future mission. In the past thirty years, has made great contribution for the new law school legal education in Xinjiang and the construction of rule of law. Not just in Xinjiang, there are many graduates are active in other places and even overseas, will expand the influence law school and new to the broader space. In Colleges and universities in Xinjiang, the new law education is the oldest, largest, and teachers and students of ethnic diversity is the important characteristics. No doubt, these features make the new law school has a unique advantage, namely the conditional overlap in this multi-cultural region to explore ways and innovation of legal culture. No law research in the general sense of the just, not just for Islamic law or customary law to investigate, but based on historical and empirical research on solid, reforming and rebuilding the seeking system, principles and norms.

The ancients said, "thirty years to life". In terms of higher education, thirty years is a relatively short time. However, in the short life time, the new law school achievement is better looking forward to her future. I'd like to express my heartfelt blessing here: the new law alexis!

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