Zhang Zhidong and the Legal Education in the Late Qing Dynasty

because of serious lacks of the domestic new style diplomacy and the legal talented person in the last years of Qing Dynasty, ZhangZhiDong positively initiated and carried out the modern law education, opened the western law curriculum and the specialty in the new style school, dispatched the personnel to go abroad studies the western law, originated and released the publication to introduce the western law knowledge. Although his deep Confucianist culture restricted him not to study the democratic spirit of the western law, his positive advocates and praction to carries out the legal education actually promoted the legal education development and the idea transformation in the last years of Qing Dynasty, raised many new style diplomacy and the legal talented persons, impeled the Chinese tradition law education to move towards the modern times.