The Judicial System and Reform in Post-Mao China

The Judicial System and Reform in Post-Mao China
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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781472436078
ISBN-13 : 1472436075
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis The Judicial System and Reform in Post-Mao China by : Dr Yuwen Li

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.

Bird in a Cage

Bird in a Cage
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 464
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ISBN-10 : 0804743789
ISBN-13 : 9780804743785
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Bird in a Cage by : Stanley B. Lubman

This book analyzes the principal legal institutions that have emerged in China and considers implications for U.S. policy of the limits on China's ability to develop meaningful legal institutions.

Dispute Resolution in the People’s Republic of China

Dispute Resolution in the People’s Republic of China
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 339
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ISBN-10 : 9789004331280
ISBN-13 : 900433128X
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Dispute Resolution in the People’s Republic of China by : Zhiqiong June Wang

Dispute resolution reforms in China in the last decade or so have all centred around the strategy of establishing an integrated dispute resolution system as part of China’s modern governance system. This new integrated system, referred to as the ‘Mechanism for Pluralist Dispute Resolution (PDR)’ in China, serves as a dispute resolution system as well as a comprehensive social control mechanism. This book is the first academic attempt to explain the methods of civil and commercial dispute resolution in China from the perspective of PDR. It systematically and critically examines the development of China’s dispute resolution system, with each chapter analysing in detail the development and transformation of the different institutions, mechanisms and processes in their historical, politico-economic and comparative context.

The Judicial System and Reform in Post-Mao China

The Judicial System and Reform in Post-Mao China
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 9781317026563
ISBN-13 : 131702656X
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

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

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.

A Social History of Maoist China

A Social History of Maoist China
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 349
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ISBN-10 : 9781107123700
ISBN-13 : 1107123704
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis A Social History of Maoist China by : Felix Wemheuer

This new social history of Maoist China provides an accessible view of the complex and tumultuous period when China came under Communist rule.

Trial of Modernity

Trial of Modernity
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0804755868
ISBN-13 : 9780804755863
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Trial of Modernity by : Xiaoqun Xu

This book illuminates what judicial modernity actually meant to the Chinese state and society in the early twentieth century and how the judicial reform resulted in paradoxical consequences due to a lack of resources and a disjunction between the national reform agenda and local social ecology.

China's Human Rights Lawyers

China's Human Rights Lawyers
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 9781134450688
ISBN-13 : 1134450680
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis China's Human Rights Lawyers by : Eva Pils

This book offers a unique insight into the role of human rights lawyers in Chinese law and politics. In her extensive account, Eva Pils shows how these practitioners are important as legal advocates for victims of injustice and how bureaucratic systems of control operate to subdue and marginalise them. The book also discusses how human rights lawyers and the social forces they work for and with challenge the system. In conditions where organised political opposition is prohibited, rights lawyers have begun to articulate and coordinate demands for legal and political change. Drawing on hundreds of anonymised conversations, the book analyses in detail human rights lawyers’ legal advocacy in the face of severe institutional limitations and their experiences of repression at the hands of the police and state security apparatus, along with the intellectual, political and moral resources lawyers draw upon to survive and resist. Key concerns include the interaction between the lawyers and their bureaucratic, professional and social environments and the forms and long term political impact of resistance. In addressing these issues, Pils offers a rare evaluative perspective on China’s legal and political system, and proposes new ways to assess domestic advocacy’s relationship with international human rights and rule of law promotion. This book will be of great interest and use to students and scholars of law, Chinese studies, socio-legal studies, political studies, international relations, and sociology. It is also of direct value to people working in the fields of human rights advocacy, law, politics, international relations, and journalism.

Bureaucracy, Politics, and Decision Making in Post-Mao China

Bureaucracy, Politics, and Decision Making in Post-Mao China
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Publisher : University of California Press
Total Pages : 394
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ISBN-10 : 9780520301498
ISBN-13 : 0520301498
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Bureaucracy, Politics, and Decision Making in Post-Mao China by : Kenneth G. Lieberthal

Using a model of "fragmented authoritarianism," this volume sharpens our view of the inner workings of the Chinese bureaucracy. The contributors' interviews with politically well-placed bureaucrats and scholars, along with documentary and field research, illuminate the bargaining and maneuvering among officials on the national, provincial, and local levels. CONTRIBUTORS:Nina P. HalpernCarol Lee HamrinDavid M. LamptonKenneth G. LieberthalMelanie ManionBarry NaughtonLynne PaineJonathan D. PollackSusan L. ShirkPaul E. SchroederAndrew G. WalderDavid Zweig This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

Learning from Shenzhen

Learning from Shenzhen
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : 9780226401263
ISBN-13 : 022640126X
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Learning from Shenzhen by : Mary Ann O'Donnell

This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China’s contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transformed from an experimental site for economic reform into a dominant city at the crossroads of the global economy. The first of China’s special economic zones, Shenzhen is today a UNESCO City of Design and the hub of China’s emerging technology industries. Bringing China studies into dialogue with urban studies, the contributors explore how the post-Mao Chinese appropriation of capitalist logic led to a dramatic remodeling of the Chinese city and collective life in China today. These essays show how urban villages and informal institutions enabled social transformation through cases of public health, labor, architecture, gender, politics, education, and more. Offering scholars and general readers alike an unprecedented look at one of the world’s most dynamic metropolises, this collective history uses the urban case study to explore critical problems and possibilities relevant for modern-day China and beyond.

Constitutional Courts in Asia

Constitutional Courts in Asia
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 407
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ISBN-10 : 9781107195080
ISBN-13 : 110719508X
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Constitutional Courts in Asia by : Hongyi Chen

A comparative, systematic and critical analysis of constitutional courts and constitutional review in Asia.