The prison history of China is a basic knowledge subject to study and expound the prison system of various historical dynasties in China. Yu Ding's "Prison History of China" broke through the compiling style of previous textbooks, drew lessons from the compiling experience of domestic excellent textbooks and the style of domestic China prison history textbooks, and adopted the structural style of the whole chapter, which reflected the frontier issues and level of China prison history research, and the content was more substantial, perfect and reasonable.

The prison history of China consists of ten chapters. The first chapter is an overview of China prison history, which expounds the research object of China prison history, the brief development of China prison history, the purpose and significance of studying China prison history, and the guiding ideology and methods of China prison history research. The second chapter is the gestation of primitive social prisons, introducing the customs and habits of primitive society and the embryonic form of primitive social prisons. The third chapter describes the prisons in slave society during the summer solstice and the Spring and Autumn Period. The fourth chapter describes the prisons in feudal society from the Warring States to the early Southern and Northern Dynasties. The fifth chapter introduces the prisons in the middle period of feudal society and the prisons in Sui and Tang Dynasties. Chapter VI prisons in the late feudal society, describing prisons in the Five Dynasties, prisons in Liao, Jin and Song Dynasties and prisons in Yuan Dynasty. Chapter VII prisons in the late feudal society, describing prisons in Ming and early Qing dynasties. Chapter VIII Prison in Qing Dynasty after the Opium War, introducing the prison system of semi-colony in Qing Dynasty and the prison improvement in the late Qing Dynasty. The ninth chapter describes the prisons of the Northern Warlords Government and the Kuomintang Government. Chapter 10: Prisons in People's Republic of China (PRC), expounding the gestation, establishment and development process of New China Prison.

Brief introduction of the author

Wang Zhiliang, male, 1985 graduated from the Law Department of China University of Political Science and Law, 1992 Master of Criminal Law from the Graduate School of China University of Political Science and Law. Now he is a professor at Shanghai University of Political Science and Law and a doctoral student at China University of Political Science and Law. Teaching criminal law, basic theory of prison science, prison history of China and other courses, focusing on criminal integration and penalty research. Participated in 1995 Ministry of Justice's ministerial scientific research project "Comparison of Chinese and foreign prison execution systems", 1996 Ministry of Justice's ministerial key scientific research project "Modern World Prison", 1997 Ministry of Justice's first batch of ministerial scientific research projects "Modern Civilized Prison Research", 200 1 Ministry of Education's key project "Criminal Law Teaching Reform Curriculum", 2000

Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Methodology of Criminal Reform Process (China Price Publishing House, 1998), New Jurisprudence (Police Education Publishing House, 1998) and Basic Theory of Prison Science (Law Publishing House, 2005). Editor-in-Chief: New Theory of China Prison (Chinese People's Public Security University Press 1999 Edition) and Case Course of Specific Provisions of Criminal Law (Peking University Press, 2004 Edition). He is the author of Prison Riots and Countermeasures in Britain and America (Federation of Literary and Art Circles Press, 2004) and Summary of Foreign Penalty Execution System (Central Compilation Press, 2006). Individually translated Encyclopedia of American Prison (Central Compilation and Publishing House, 2007).