孙慧敏博士的《制度移植——民初上海的中国律师(1912—1937)》[1)一书为过去近二十年来学术界对民国上海律师业的史学研究作一个丰硕的阶段性总结,亦为非欧洲中心(non-Eurocentric)和非国家中心(non-state-centric)的中国法律史研究论述继续开拓了空间。本书不以西方法律原理去评介制度移植的得失,不以国家建构的视野来看待民国初期法律移植的过程,而是从被移植者(包括律师和使用律师服务的人)的角度去了解制度移植的经历,和当中 Dr. Sun’s “System Transplantation - The Chinese Lawyer in Shanghai in the Early Republic of China (1912-1937)” [1] provided a fruitful summary of the academic research on the history of the lawyer profession in the Republic of Shanghai in the past two decades. Space for non-European-centric non-state-centric research on legal history in China continues. This book does not use Western legal principles to comment on the pros and cons of system transplants. It does not look at the process of law transplanting in the early Republic of China from the perspective of state construction, but from the point of view of transplanters (including lawyers and lawyers) Transplant experience, and among them