China S Legal Awakening

Author : Carlos Wing-hung Lo
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789622093805

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China's Legal Awakening by Carlos Wing-hung Lo Pdf

After decades of nihilistic rule under Mao Zedong, can legal order be restored in China? How successful is Deng Xiaoping's initiative in developing a socialist legal system? Where is China on its road to the 'rule of law'? This book illustrates - through the analysis of more than two hundred criminal cases selected from Minzhu yu fazhi (Democracy and the Legal System) in the period 1979-89 - that the establishment of a formal criminal justice system and the development of an embryonic socialist theory of law in China reflect a genuine and widespread legal awakening. A rudimentary legal culture has taken hold among Party leaders, cadres, judicial personnel, intellectuals and the general public. Nevertheless, the contradiction between legal order and Party supremacy remains, as demonstrated by the June Fourth incident in Beijing and the ensuing trials of the 1989 dissidents.

Author : Yonghong Lu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1282705695

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China's Legal Awakening: Legal Theory and Criminal Justice in Deng's Era by Yonghong Lu Pdf

Author : Randall Peerenboom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521016746

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China's Long March Toward Rule of Law by Randall Peerenboom Pdf

Argues that China is in transition from rule by law to a version of rule of law.

Author : John Fitzgerald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0804733376

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Awakening China by John Fitzgerald Pdf

This innovative work is the first to approach the awakening of China as a historical problem in its own right, and to locate this problem within the broader history of the rise of modern China. It analyzes the link between the awakening of China as a historical narrative and the awakening of the Chinese people as a political technique for building a sovereign and independent state. In sum, it asks what we mean when we say that China "woke up" in this century. Fiction and fashion, architecture and autobiography, take their places alongside politics and history, and the reader is asked to move about among writers, philosophers, ethnographers, revolutionaries, and soldiers who would seem to have little in common. Rumor is sometimes taken as seriously as truth, novels are consulted as frequently as documents, and dreams are given a prominence normally reserved for facts in the writing of history. This book follows the legend of China's awakening from its origins in the European imagination, to its transmission to China and its encounter with a lyrical Chinese tradition of ethical awakening, to its incorporation and mobilization in a mass movement designed to wake up everyone. The idea of a national awakening crossed all discursive boundaries to make room for nationalist politics in personal culture and helped to conscript personal culture into service of the revolutionary state. The book focuses on the Nationalist movement in south China, highlighting the role of Sun Yat-sen as director of awakenings in the Nationalist Revolution and the place of Mao Zedong as his successor in the politics of mass awakening. Of special interest is the previously untold story of Mao's role in the NationalistPropaganda Bureau, showing Mao as a master of propaganda and discipline, rather than as peasant movement activist.

Author : Bin Liang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135903237

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The Changing Chinese Legal System, 1978 – Present by Bin Liang Pdf

This groundbreaking book examines the changing Chinese legal system since 1978. In addition to historical analyses of changes at the economic, political-legal, and social levels, Liang gives special attention to crime and punishment functions of the legal system, and the current judicial system based on field research, i.e., court observations in both Beijing and Chengdu. The court system has been in a process of systemization, both internally and externally, seeking more power and relative independence. However, traditional influences, such as preference of mediation (over litigation) and substantive justice (over procedural justice), and lack of respect (from the masses) and guaranteed power (from the political structure), still have major impacts on the building and operation of the judicial system. Liang also shrewdly places the Chinese legal and political reform within the global system. This book, which reshapes our understanding of the economic, political, and essentially legal changes in China within the global context, will be crucial reading for scholars of Asia, law, criminal justice, and sociology.

Author : Yuwen Li
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317026563

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The Judicial System and Reform in Post-Mao China by Yuwen Li Pdf

This comprehensive study examines the development and changing characteristics of the judicial system and reform process over the past three decades in China. As the role of courts in society has increased so too has the amount of public complaints about the judiciary. At the same time, political control over the judiciary has retained its tight-grip. The shortcomings of the contemporary system, such as institutional deficiencies, shocking cases of injustice and cases of serious judicial corruption, are deemed quite appalling by an international audience. Using a combination of traditional modes of legal analysis, case studies, and empirical research, this study reflects upon the complex progress that China has made, and continues to make, towards the modernisation of its judicial system. Li offers a better understanding on how the judicial system has transformed and what challenges lay ahead for further enhancement. This book is unique in providing both the breadth of coverage and yet the substantive details of the most fundamental as well as controversial subjects concerning the operation of the courts in China.

Author : Lorenzo Riccardi,Giorgio Riccardi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789811559679

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China VAT by Lorenzo Riccardi,Giorgio Riccardi Pdf

This book clearly chronicles the evolution of Chinese VAT regulations, with a particular focus on the reforms of recent years. Covering all the provisions of the laws related to VAT, it also provides examples and implementation instructions. Practically structured and easy to consult, it allows readers to quickly find answers to questions that may arise in the course of their work. As such, the book is a valuable tool for accountants, advisors, lawyers, public officials and anyone working in the sector.

Author : Wang Gungwu,Zheng Yongnian
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814492263

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Reform, Legitimacy and Dilemmas by Wang Gungwu,Zheng Yongnian Pdf

How has China's post-Deng leadership governed the country? How have the changing social and political environments shifted the bases of political legitimacy? What strategies has Jiang Zemin adopted to cope with new circumstances in order to strengthen his leadership? What are the challenges these new reform measures have generated for the leadership? And how have domestic concerns constrained the leadership's intention in China's foreign relations? These are some of the questions which this volume attempts to address. The authors agree that Jiang Zemin is not a man without any political initiative. He has struggled to establish his own style of leadership, and to strengthen the legitimacy of his leadership by setting forth new rules and institutions for political games and by finding new measures to cope with new challenges. This collection of articles shows the success Jiang and his colleagues have had in strengthening their leadership; how the different reform measures have strengthened Jiang's rule; and how the ongoing reform has created new challenges for his regime. Contents:Party, State, and Society:The Politics of Power Succession (Y-N Zheng)The Chinese Communist Party in the Countryside (I Wobowo)State Corporatism and Civil Society (E X Gu)The Religio-Political Significance of Falun Gong and Jiang Zemin's Legacy of Social Stability (W T Liu)The Rule by Law vs the Rule of Law (Y-N Zheng)Social Reform and Challenges:Labor Law for Foreign Investment Enterprises in China (V I Lo)The Political Economy of Public Housing Reform (E X Gu)Conflicts between Societal Desire and Individual Responsibility: Financing Issues in China's Urban Health Insurance Reform (W Yu)China's Growing Concerns over Its Environmental Problems (Y-Q Tong)Domestic Responses to External Relations:The Politics of Human Rights: Stability First, Development Second, and Everything Else Can Wait (L L P Gore)China's Dialogue with the West on Rights: Is There Any Common Ground? (V I Lo)Nationalism and Its Dilemma: Chinese Responses to Embassy Bombing (J Wong & Y-N Zheng)China's Strategic Intentions and Demands: What Is New? (F-L Wang) Readership: General. Keywords:Reviews:“The book is a welcome addition to the study of contemporary Chinese politics, especially in the post-Deng era. Students of contemporary China are likely to find the book useful in apprising them of several key recent developments facing Chinese politics and policy reform. General readers interested in the Chinese reform will also find it informative and accessible.”The Journal of Asian Studies

Author : Pitman B. Potter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134561308

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The Chinese Legal System by Pitman B. Potter Pdf

The legal system of the People's Republic of China has seen significant changes since legal reforms began in 1978. At the end of the second decade of legal reform, law-making and institution-building have reached impressive levels. Understanding the operation and possible futures of law in the People's Republic of China requires an appreciation of the normative influences on the system, as well as an examination of how these norms have worked in practice.

Author : Guanghua Yu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415640367

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Rethinking Law and Development by Guanghua Yu Pdf

This book examines the relationship between law and China's economic and human development. It explores the development of the Chinese legal system both from China's historical perspective considering the specific political and socioeconomic factors that are shaping Chinese law and from a comparative perspective, exploring the interaction between China and the rest of the world. It considers the both the linkages between the formal law and China's economic development, and issues of law, human rights, and social justice as they relate to economic and human development.

Author : Zhang Runhua
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739189900

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The Constitutional and Legal Development of the Chinese Presidency by Zhang Runhua Pdf

Weaving together the study of both Chinese law and politics, this book investigates the evolution of the Chinese presidency and examines how presidential nomination, succession, and power have been determined by an ever-changing mixture of legal and political rules and traditions.

Author : W. A. P. Martin
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547320999

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The Awakening of China by W. A. P. Martin Pdf

The Awakening of China' is a book written by William Alexander Parsons Martin for English-speaking audiences to understand more about China, including its history, culture, and current government structure. The author of this book was an American Presbyterian missionary to China and translator, famous for having translated a number of important Western treatises into Chinese, such as Henry Wheaton's Elements of International Law.

Author : William A. Joseph
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190870720

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Politics in China by William A. Joseph Pdf

On October 1, 2009, the People's Republic of China (PRC) celebrated the 60th anniversary of its founding. And what an eventful and tumultuous six decades it had been. During that time, under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), China was transformed from one of the world's poorest countries into the world's fastest growing major economy, and from a weak state barely able to govern or protect its own territory to a rising power that is challenging the United States for global influence. Over those same years, the PRC also experienced the most deadly famine in human history, caused largely by the actions and inactions of its political leaders. Not long after, there was a collapse of government authority that pushed the country to the brink of (and in some places actually into) civil war and anarchy. Today, China is, for the most part, peaceful, prospering, and proud. This is the China that was on display for the world to see during the Beijing Olympics in 2008. The CCP maintains a firm grip on power through a combination of popular support largely based on its recent record of promoting rapid economic growth and harsh repression of political opposition. Yet, the party and country face serious challenges on many fronts, including a slowing economy, environmental desecration, pervasive corruption, extreme inequalities, and a rising tide of social protest. The third edition of Politics in China has been extensively revised, thoroughly updated, and includes a new chapter on the internet and Politics in China. It is an authoritative introduction to how the world's most populous nation and rapidly rising global power is governed today. Written by leading China scholars, the book's chapters offers accessible overviews of major periods in China's modern political history from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, key topics in contemporary Chinese politics, and developments in four important areas located on China's geographic periphery: Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Author : Marc Lanteigne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134214037

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China and International Institutions by Marc Lanteigne Pdf

China has shifted its foreign policy from one that avoided engagement in international organizations to one that is now embracing them. These moves present a new challenge to international relations theory. How will the global community be affected by the engagement of this massive global power with international institutions? This new study explores why China has chosen to abandon its previous doctrine of institutional isolation and details how it is currently unable to balance American power unilaterally and details an indirect path to greater power. In addition, it includes the first major analysis of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, comprising China, Russia and most of Central Asia. In contrast to many works on the "rise of China" question, which place an emphasis on her material goods and powers, this book delivers a new approach. It shows how the unique barriers Beijing is facing are preventing the country from taking the traditional paths of territorial expansion and political-economic domination in order to develop as a great power. One of these barriers is the United States and its inherent military and economic strength. The other is the existence of nuclear weapons, which makes direct great power conflict unacceptably costly. China has therefore opted for a new path, using institutions as stepping stones to great power status. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, world politics, world history and Asia.

Author : Jae Ho Chung,Tao-chiu Lam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135203726

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China's Local Administration by Jae Ho Chung,Tao-chiu Lam Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive survey of China's local administration. It considers all kinds of local government units and their administrative functions, both€historically and in the present day: ranging from the provinces, centrally-administered municipalities and autonomous regions to prefectures, counties, townships and urban districts.