Hu Shuijun, “Inner Sageliness and outer Kingliness”: Towards a Humanistic Way to the Rule of Law, Shanghai: Huadong Normal University Press, 2013.

Based on the internal connections between “inner sageliness” and “outer kingliness”, this book tries to examine from the humanistic perspective the construction of the rule of law in China. To a large extent, it is also an overall review of the rule of law in both ancient and contemporary times and an exploration of a Chinese road towards political and legal development that integrates ancient as well as contemporary, Western as well as Chinese perspectives. It takes both western and Chinese humanisms as the entry points of its comparative structure, analyzes Confucian, Legalist and Western forms of rule of law at the levels of morality, utility, governance and polity, and examines the cognitive rationality basis and moral basis of the rule of law and, on the basis of such analysis, tries to expand the humanistic dimension of Chinese system of rule of law, even of the entire modern system of rule of law. The first part of the book reviews and analyzes the Chinese moral humanism and Western rational humanism; the second part compares three different modes of rule of law, namely the Confucian, Legalist and Western modes, each with its own historical and theoretical basis; the third part explores the theoretical necessity and historical possibility of integrating moral system with democracy and the rule of law while at the same time creating the moral and rational humanistic bases of politics and society and restructuring the doctrine of “inner sageliness and outer kingliness”.