In ancient China, the felony of rebellion and other capital crimes were additionally punishable by house searches and the subsequent confiscation of all the family's property of the person involved. This system was implemented until the end of the Qing Dynasty. Shen Jiaben submitted a report to the emperor to promulgate the Great Qing New Criminal Law, following the principles of modern Western criminal law. In the code, the scope of confiscation is limited to contraband goods, criminal tools and income from crime. However, Soviet Russia which was founded on communism confiscated the property of the counter-revolutionaries, and regarded it as a means of suppressing class enemies and a measure to realize the nationalization of communism. The ancient Chinese system of confiscating family property was resurgent in Soviet Russian criminal law. Following the jurisprudence of suppressing the counter-revolution by Soviet-Russian criminal law, the Chinese National Government established a system of political property confiscation in modern Chinese criminal law centered on the Act for the Judgement on Anti-Revolutionary Offences, and later retained in special criminal laws such as the Act for the Control and Punishment of Rebellion during the Taiwan authoritarian period until the termination of national mobilization for suppression of the Communist rebellion. The issue of how to return the politically confiscated property now has become a major problem for Taiwan in the context of transitional justice. The Chinese Communist Party, that built its state twice, followed Soviet-Russian criminal law on both occasions. She still maintains the general confiscation of criminal property under ordinary criminal law. Undoubtedly, the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China is different from the modern criminal law system, for there are still major human rights defects.