Drawing on Actor Network Theory (ANT), this study takes the legal translation during the late Qing law reform period as a case study and adopts a close reading method to identify translation actors and reconstruct the actor network of state subjectivity in legal translation. The findings reveal that the state subjectivity of legal translation is essentially a “shared future subjectivity” constructed by human actor groups and non-human actors, that is, Qing government, law revision institution and its operation mode through translation. Within this shared subjectivity, there exist three hierarchical levels, namely, high-level, mid-level, and low-level subjects, interwoven with complex inter subjective relations, including power, interests, and cooperative relations. Theoretically, this paper enriches the theoretical discourse of legal translation studies and supplements the conceptual system of state translation studies; practically, it provides valuable references for the institutional operation and quality control of contemporary state sponsored legal translation.