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"A skillful, multidisciplinary collection by China specialists, this volume treats fazhi (the rule of law) as it relates conceptually and practically to historical and contemporary China."

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Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Problem of Paradigms
1. Conceptions and Receptions of Legality: Understanding the Complexity of Law Reform in Modern China
2. Law, Law, What Law? Why Western Scholars of China Have Not Had More to Say about Its Law
3. Using the Past to Make a Case for the Rule of Law
4. Rule of Man and the Rule of Law in China: Punishing Provincial Governors during the Qing
5. Collective Responsibility in Qing Criminal Law
6. True Confessions? Chinese Confessions Then and Now
7. Law and Discretion in Contemporary Chinese Courts
8. Equality and Justice in Official and Popular Views about Civil Obligations: China and Taiwan
9. Language and Law: Sources of Systemic Vagueness and Ambiguous Authority in Chinese Statutory Language
10. The Future of Federalism in China
11. The Rule of Law Imposed from Outside: China's Foreign-Oriented Legal Regime since 1978
Epilogue: The Deep Roots of Resistance to Law Codes and Lawyers in China
Contributors
Index

The Limits of the Rule of Law in China

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      Publisher University of Washington Press
      Published 1 December 2014
      ISBN-13 9780295994468
      978-0295994468
      ISBN-10 0295994460
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      Legal history Methods, theory and philosophy of law Politics and government

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      "A skillful, multidisciplinary collection by China specialists, this volume treats fazhi (the rule of law) as it relates conceptually and practically to historical and contemporary China."

      * Choice *

      Table of Contents

      Foreword
      Acknowledgments
      Introduction: The Problem of Paradigms
      1. Conceptions and Receptions of Legality: Understanding the Complexity of Law Reform in Modern China
      2. Law, Law, What Law? Why Western Scholars of China Have Not Had More to Say about Its Law
      3. Using the Past to Make a Case for the Rule of Law
      4. Rule of Man and the Rule of Law in China: Punishing Provincial Governors during the Qing
      5. Collective Responsibility in Qing Criminal Law
      6. True Confessions? Chinese Confessions Then and Now
      7. Law and Discretion in Contemporary Chinese Courts
      8. Equality and Justice in Official and Popular Views about Civil Obligations: China and Taiwan
      9. Language and Law: Sources of Systemic Vagueness and Ambiguous Authority in Chinese Statutory Language
      10. The Future of Federalism in China
      11. The Rule of Law Imposed from Outside: China's Foreign-Oriented Legal Regime since 1978
      Epilogue: The Deep Roots of Resistance to Law Codes and Lawyers in China
      Contributors
      Index

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