法律文本的矛盾--从英租威海卫时期的一份鞭刑文件说起

英租威海卫<1903年鞭笞规定法令>表达了一种深刻的矛盾,破解这一矛盾需要回到法律文本的历史语境中去,需要对文本背后的"二元法律"进行分析.威海鞭刑制度与香港及英国鞭刑制度有直接的血缘关系.把鞭刑问题与缠足问题联系起来,我们发现对某种恶的容忍并不是"二元法律"的必然后果,它来自威英当局对殖民统治的成本考虑.

Contradictions in Legal Text--A Study of the Document Concerning Flogging During the British Lease of Weihai

The deep contradiction exists in the Flogging Regulation Ordinance of 1903 during the British lease of Weihai. We need to take the historical contexts into consideration in order to explain the contradiction through the analysis of the "dual legal system" underlying the legal text. The flogging system at Weihai stemmed from that of Hong Kong and Great Britain. If we study the phenomenon of flogging together with the foot-binding, we will find that the tolerance of some evils does not necessarily result from "dual legal system", but instead from the British authority's considerations of the cost of colonial rule in Weihai.