The limits of the rule of law in China /

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Other Authors: Turner-Gottschang, Karen, Feinerman, James V., Guy, R. Kent, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2000]
Series:Asian law series ; no. 14.
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Table of Contents:
  • Conceptions and receptions of legality: understanding the complexity of law reform in modern China / Yuanyuan Shen
  • Law, law, what law? why western scholars of China have not had more to say about its law / William P. Alford
  • Using the past to make a case for the rule of law / Jonathan K. Ocko
  • Rule of man and the rule of law in China: punishing provincial governors during the Qing / R. Kent Guy
  • Collective responsibility in Qing criminal law / Joanna Waley-Cohen
  • True confessions? Chinese confessions then and now / Alison W. Conner
  • Law and discretion in contemporary Chinese courts / Margaret Y.K. Woo
  • Equality and justice in official and popular views about civil obligations: China and Taiwan / Pitman B. Potter
  • Language and law: sources of systemic vagueness and ambiguous authority in Chinese statutory language / Claudia Ross and Lester Ross
  • The future of federalism in China / Tahirih V. Lee
  • The rule of law imposed from outside: China's foreign-oriented legal regime since 1978 / James V. Feinerman
  • Epilogue: the deep roots of resistance to law codes and lawyers in China / Jack L. Dull.