China’s rapid socioeconomic transformation of the past twenty years has led to dramatic changes in its judicial system and legal practices. As China becomes more powerful on the world stage, the global community has dedicated more resources and attention to understanding the country’s evolving democratization, and policymakers have identified the development of civil liberties and long-term legal reforms as crucial for the nation’s acceptance as a global partner. Modern Chinese Legal Reform is designed as a legal and political research tool to help English-speaking scholars interpret the many recent changes to China’s legal system. Investigating subjects such as constitutional history, the intersection of politics and law, democratization, civil legal practices, and judicial mechanisms, the essays in this volume situate current constitutional debates in the context of both the country’s ideology and traditions and the wider global community. Editors Xiaobing Li and Qiang Fang bring together scholars from multiple disciplines to provide a comprehensive and balanced look at a difficult subject. Featuring newly available official sources and interviews with Chinese administrators, judges, law-enforcement officers, and legal experts, this essential resource enables readers to view key events through the eyes of individuals who are intimately acquainted with the challenges and successes of the past twenty years.
Table of Content
Introduction: Power versus Law in Chinese History
Urban War at the Yanzi River
Waitan Garden: Law, Law Enforcement, and Lawyers
Wuhan’s Showdown at the Supreme Court
Xuzhou: A Teacher versus the Powerfu Government
Professor Wang’s Costly Battle against Local Power
Shanghair and Chongqing: The Winnter, the Loser, and the Prisoners
Conclusion: The Legal Asymmetry
About the author
Qiang Fang is assistant professor of East Asian history at the University of Minnesota–Duluth.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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