摘要： 本文从“正义体系”的整体来重新思考中国古今的非正式(民间)正义体系和正式(国家)正义体系，特别强调民事正义体系和刑事正义体系的相互依赖、交搭和互动。然后，将其与“世界正义工程”(WJP)的“法治指数”所采用的框架相对比，借此论证古今“中华法系”与现代西方法律的异同，以及中国的调解体系与西方的非诉讼纠纷解决机制(ADR)的差异。中华法系今天不仅在中国也在其他主要的东亚文明国家起到重大的作用，应该破除一些影响较大的盲点和误区，探索一条超越中西、古今二元对立分析框架的道路。

关键词: 中华法系, 非正式正义体系, 正式正义体系, 非诉讼纠纷解决机制, 世界正义工程

Abstract: This article starts with the entirety of the Chinese“justice system”,past and present,to reconsider informal justice(among the people)and formal justice(of the state),emphasizing especially the interdependence,overlap,and interaction of the civil and criminal justice systems.It then compares the justice system to the analytical framework employed by the“Rule of Law Index”of the World Justice Project(WJP),to bring out the similarities and differences between the“Sinitic Legal Tradition”and modern Western justice,and also the sharp contrasts between Chinese mediation and Western Alternative Dispute Resolution(ADR).The purpose of the article is to demonstrate how a number of influential common assumptions are mistaken,and how the Sinitic legal tradition remains important in contemporary justice,not just of China but also the other major“East Asian civilization”countries.The purpose is to search for a path that would go beyond the either/or binary opposition between the Chinese and the Western,and the past and the present.

Key words: Sinitic Legal Tradition, Informal Justice, Formal Justice, ADR(Alternative Dispute Resolution), World Justice Project