改过自新：清代以来自首制度的表达与实践

This book is a legal and social history monograph that focuses on the system of surrender, tracing its evolution from the Qing Dynasty to the present day. The author vividly discusses the connotations and development of the system of surrender with rich historical materials and cases, thoroughly analyzes the actual operation of legal provisions and institutions, and incorporates the unique concept of family-state integration in Chinese civilization into the study of legal history. This book breaks through the limitations of fragmented research on traditional and modern surrender systems, focusing on how the system of surrender sustained its vitality amidst changes and constants against the backdrop of modern upheavals and the "Western law eastward spread," exploring the contemporary system of surrender's absorption of modern judicial thought and adaptation to social changes. Through theoretical dialogue with Weber's formal rational law and other theories, it reveals the evolution of the system from traditional "pragmatic moralism" to modernity, providing profound theoretical and empirical references for understanding the modernization of Chinese law.