Exercises
1.Prepare answers to the following questions using paragraph form.
(1) What are the basic conditions for the existence and development of private international law? Do you believe that such conditions existed in Ancient China? Why?
(2) After the mid-19th century,did China provide a spawning ground for private international law to develop? Why? Why LI Hongzhang lamented that the great changes that China was witnessing at that time had never happened during the last three thousand years?
(3) Summarize the features of the Act of 1918,and try to provide an objective evaluation.
(4) Summarize the development of private international law between 1949 and 1978.
2.Multiple Choice
(1) Which of the following statements is not correct? ( )
A.The Conflicts Act of 2010 is the first statute on choice-of-law of China.
B.In the author’s opinion,it is a hasty conclusion to say that the earliest conflict rule of China surfaced in the Tang Code.
C.The first three decades after the founding of the People’s Republic of China witnessed a regress of Chinese private international law.
D.There were no choice-of-law rules in the Ming Code and the Qing Code.(https://www.daowen.com)
(2) Chinese private international law ( )
A.has not been influenced by the western doctrines during the recent decades.
B.has reached maturity when the reform and opening up policy was adopted in the late 1970s.
C.was not an independent discipline until the late 1970s.
D.developed very fast after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China.
(3) Which of the following statements is correct? ( )
A.Chinese judges at present are very experienced in handling private international law cases.
B.The Conflicts Act of 1918 was based on German law.
C.The late Qing Dynasty opened its doors to facilitate foreign exchanges in an independent manner.
D.Party autonomy was not permitted under the Conflicts Act of 1918.