| 英文摘要 |
In the summer of 2000, the Peking University Library discovered Hu Shih's earliest diary among the books and documents left by him in its collection. It was a handwritten diary from when he was studying at Cheng Chung School in Shanghai, starting on February 13, 1906 and ending on July 26 of the same year. Although the time span was just over five months, this period was significant as it marked the initial phase when Hu Shih—who was not yet 15 years old at the time—received a Western education. This diary is not only a precious document reflecting the status of Western education outside the early church school in Shanghai, but it also serves as a rare historical material illustrating the influence on Hu Shih's ideological formation process. The Peking University Library soon edited Hu Shih’s Unpublished Letters and Diaries in the Peking University Library Collection, included it under the title“Cheng Chung Middle School Diary,”and published it in a photocopy (Tsinghua University Press, 2003). In his diary, Hu Shih recorded his reading of The Citizen Reader, a work by British scholar and politician Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster (H. O. Arnold-Forster), which lists six legal maxims, most of which involve the procedural justice principles of the common law tradition. Hu Shih translated them into Chinese in his diary. In the introduction, this article briefly examines the life of the original author and corrects some errors made by Cao Boyan, the editor of The Complete Collection of Hu Shih’s Diary (Linking Books, Taipei 2004) from Yuan-Liou Publishing Taiwan. The main text defines the meanings of the six legal maxims. On this basis, it either compares the differences between Chinese and Western legal traditions, incorporates Hu Shih’s life story to illustrate the narrative through his own experiences, or links the current judicial system to reveal the proper orientation of ideas and institutional changes, in an effort to provide a new perspective for the studies of Hu Shih and also hopes to help establish the unique value and significance of procedural justice in today's China. |