The translations of Chinese legal classics in the English-speaking world have focused on three legal classics: The Great Qing Code (another translated version by Jr Staunton named Ta Tsing Leu Lee), The T’ang Code, and The Great Ming Code (Qu and Wan, Chinese Translators Journal 01:51–59, 2019). The English translation of all three legal classics has been published overseas. Several translators have expressed the purposes and strategies of the English translation in the form of subtexts such as preface, acknowledgment, and introduction, revealing a strong willingness to communicate with the readers of the translated texts. It also supplements and expands important information for the readers to read the English translations of the Chinese legal classics from different levels. The paratext enriches, explains, refines, and verifies the main text of the translation, and it, to a large extent, stimulates the readers’ strong interest in reading (Pellatt, Text, Extratext, Metatext and Paratext in Translation, 2013). However, as the essence of traditional Chinese legal thought and culture, the paratexts in English translations of Chinese legal classics have received very little attention. Given this, according to the Paratext Theory, this chapter takes the English translations of The Great Qing Code, The T’ang Code, and The Great Ming Code as the research objects. It utilizes the methods of close reading and comparison and contrast to decipher the rich meaning contained in the paratexts, to understand the translator’s purpose and strategy of the English translation of the Chinese legal classics, and to find out the functions of the paratexts with different characteristics in the construction of the relationship between the translator and the readers.