The Great Qing Legal Code (Great Ching Legal Code or Ta Tsing Leu Lee (in British Hong Kong)) or Qing Code (Ching Code) (Chinese: 大清律例; pinyin: Da Qing lü li; Manchu: Daicing gurun-i fafun-i bithe kooli) was the legal code of Qing (Ching) dynasty (1644–1912). The code was based on the Ming legal system, which was kept largely intact. Compared to the Ming code which had no more than several hundred statutes and sub-statutes, the Qing code contained 1,907 statutes from over 30 times of revisions between 1644 and 1912.
The Qing code was the last legal code of imperial China. By the end of Qing dynasty, it was the only legal code enforced in China for nearly 270 years. Even with the fall of imperial Qing in 1912, the Confucian philosophy of social control enshrined in the Qing code remain influential in the German-based system of the Republic of China, and later, the Soviet-based system of the People's Republic of China.
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