Why Was Legal Reforms so Difficult in the Late Qing Dynasty

After the Opium War,China is in peril on the occasion.Qing government implemented an unprecedented comprehensive legal reform,opening the historical range of modernization of Chinese law on the transformation.Under the pressing internal and external situation,reforms in order to a strong country is the top priority,while the development of the law is not concerned,so the late Qing legal reform is very difficult.As it is not within the community forces,but in the impact of social external forces,the legal reform had a difficult fit with the traditional culture.Since the late Qing legal reform,modernization of Chinese law has lasted over a hundred years.Even today,how to achieve the fit between the China's traditional culture and modernization of China's law is still an important theoretical and practical issue we have to face.