Former site of Gongxian concession mixed court.
Located at Zhejiang North Road 19 1, it was founded in Guangxu 1899. It used to be a mixed court in the late Qing Dynasty (also known as a trial court), a local court in the first special zone of Jiangsu and Shanghai during the Republic of China, and the second branch of the Jiangsu High Court. In August 1949, 1 1, Shanghai Mayor Chen Yi announced the establishment of Shanghai People's Court (Zhejiang North Road 19 1).
Zhejiang North Road 19 1 has experienced three important historical periods with completely different nature.
1. The establishment of consular jurisdiction and mixed court system in the concession in the late Qing Dynasty is the historical evidence that China was reduced to a semi-colonial country for a long time after the war and partially lost its judicial power, which reflected the judicial privilege of foreign powers in China. The mixed court system was different from the feudal "yamen system" in China at that time, and it was the judicial organ of the Shanghai Concession. Therefore, it is more influenced by the western judicial system and has the color of blending Chinese and western judicial cultures.
2.1After the May 30th tragedy in 925, people's calls for withdrawing consular jurisdiction and abolishing mixed courts became stronger and stronger. At the beginning of 1927, the mixed court was abolished by the then national government, and the temporary court of Shanghai concession and the court of appeal were established at the original site, and later changed to the local court of Jiangsu and Shanghai First Special Zone.
3. It was not until 1949 that the new China was born that the Shanghai People's Court was established.
"Many cases tried here have had an important impact on China's modern history, modern history, revolutionary history and legal history. According to preliminary understanding, the mixed court in the late Qing Dynasty tried the first trademark competition case in modern Shanghai-the case of Xiang _ soap passing off as Citronella and the cases of democratic revolutionaries Zhang Taiyan, Zou Rong, Huang Xing and Chen Tianhua. During the Republic of China, Zhang, the editor-in-chief of China New Newspaper, the editor-in-chief of Republic of China Daily and the chief culprit of the May 30th tragedy were all tried. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Ling Yanguang, the first traitor, was tried for the first time. A group of older revolutionaries and revolutionary predecessors were also detained and tried here. After the liberation of Shanghai, there have been a number of major cases that have great influence on society, such as the case of Ye Danqiu, a spy who killed China's underground radio station, the case of Su, a spy who made and published a bloody case, and the case of Wang, the manager of a private Dakangxi pharmacy who harbored volunteers to resist US aggression and aid Korea. "
"In a sense, the history of Shanghai local trials and courts is also a microcosm of the development of China's legal system. This building was once called "the First Court of the Far East", which has the dual characteristics of China feudal yamen and modern western courts. It is of positive significance to excavate and sort out the judicial events at the site of "Zhejiang North Road 19 1", and it is a vivid and good teaching material for propagating patriotism and carrying out historical education and legal education. " However, at present, "Zhejiang North Road 19 1No." has been included in the transformation of the old district of Zhabei District, and its area is planned as an administrative and cultural center. In his written comments, Shen Zhixian, a representative of the Municipal People's Congress, called for the protection and utilization of historical and cultural heritage as much as possible in the process of promoting Shanghai's cultural construction. Combined with the renovation plan, the Shanghai Court Museum was established on this site. As a public welfare cultural facility, it takes social legal education and judicial cultural exchange as its main functions, taking into account the corresponding auxiliary functions such as tourism.
On April 4th, 20 14, the Shanghai Municipal People's Government approved the announcement of the former site of the mixed courtyard-the concession was the Shanghai Cultural Relics Protection Unit (Hu Fufa [2065438+04] No.29).