Le site d'éditeur LexisNexis indique : "The first edition of this book, which appeared in 1992, was one of the first books in the English language on the Chinese legal system written from a comparative jurisprudential perspective. This fourth edition now provides an up-to-date account of this system's history, constitutional structure, sources of law, major legal institutions (such as the courts, the procuratorates, the legal profession and the Ministry of Justice), as well as the basic concepts and principles of procedural and substantive law. "

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Far East, grade: 2,0, China University of Political Science and Law, course: Introduction to Chinese Law, language: English, abstract: The People's Republic of China in 2013: 1.3 Billion people on the verge of becoming part of the - expected - ruling nation of the 21st century. By smartly adapting western style economic policies to replace the hence centrally planned by a well functioning market economy, the former developing country has managed to rise in just 3 decades from the ashes of the political chaos of the cultural revolution to the olymp of the world's leading industrialized nations. Reaching an economic accural rate of annually over 8 Percent, it already managed to took over the place of Japan in terms of GDP and is now only second to the United States, while the gap between them continues to decrease every year.

This is an original interdisciplinary study of Chinese law, its language, and political institution. Evolving within a complex literary framework over thousands of years, Chinese language has lost its conceptual distinctiveness to its multilevel and overlapping meanings and connotations. Chinese law has become inflated with contrary rulings and exceptions. This mass of rules requires an extra-lingual (legal) authority to redefine boundaries and specify applications. This book follows and continues the author's, The Boundaries of Meaning and the Formation of Law (McGill University Press) by illustrating how language shapes the formation, application, and administration of law in various cultural environments. Law and Politics in Modern China is an important book for those interested in Chinese history, culture, law, and politics. It also provides refreshing insights about the way that law continues to function after its language matures and creates contradictions and loopholes within its system of rules--one of the most important issues facing Western legal administration in the immediate future.

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - Region: Far East, grade: 2,0, China University of Political Science and Law, course: Introduction to Chinese Law, language: English, abstract: The People's Republic of China in 2013: 1.3 Billion people on the verge of becoming part of the - expected - ruling nation of the 21st century. By smartly adapting western style economic policies to replace the hence centrally planned by a well functioning market economy, the former developing country has managed to rise in just 3 decades from the ashes of the political chaos of the cultural revolution to the olymp of the world's leading industrialized nations. Reaching an economic accural rate of annually over 8 Percent, it already managed to took over the place of Japan in terms of GDP and is now only second to the United States, while the gap between them continues to decrease every year.

Presents new insights into recent changes in China's legal framework in areas crucial to the modernisation process. Topics include law reform to accommodate foreign interests and convert China to a market economy, the judicial system and its treatment of human rights issues, the introduction of non-tariff barriers for foreign companies, and the current privatisation process.

This concise, thought-provoking analysis explores the political changes and economic development emblematic of a rapidly rising China. Politics and Government in China is an introduction to Chinese government and politics. The book provides analysis of China's political history; its key leaders and leadership transitions; and its political party, state institutions, and party policies. Moving beyond a strict definition of politics, the book also explores the nation's economic development, social policy, law and order, and foreign relations. Throughout these analyses, the book's primary focus is on modern China, a nation poised to become an economic superpower. It thus explores themes such as China's transition from a traditional society to a modern society, from a less developed to a rapidly growing economy, from a revolutionary regime to a modernizing state, and from the rule of man to the rule of law. Although the transitions are incomplete and the future still uncertain, this book will help readers understand China as it is—and as it may become.

China's legal system is vast and complex, and robust scholarship on the subject is difficult to obtain. Inside China's Legal System provides readers with a comprehensive look at the system including how it works in practice, theoretical and historical underpinnings, and how it might evolve. The first section of the book explains the Communist Party's utilitarian approach to law: rule by law. The second section discusses Confucian and Legalist views on morality, law and punishment, and the influence such traditional Chinese thinking has on contemporary Chinese law. The third section focuses on the roles of key players (including judges, prosecutors, lawyers, and legal academics) in the Chinese legal system. The fourth section offers Chinese legal case studies in civil, criminal, administrative, and international law. The book concludes with a comparison of China's fundamental governing and legal principles with those of the United States, in such areas as checks and balances, separation of powers, and due process. - Uses extensive legal materials and historical documents generally unavailable to Western based academics - Gives insider knowledge, including first-hand experience teaching law, and close involvement with judges, attorneys, and law professors in China - Analyses legal issues from historical and cultural perspectives holistically

Providing a base for the understanding of current Chinese politics, this book offers historical and cultural perspectives on the origin and rise of Chinese Communism, the erosion of Communist ideology, the political institutions of the Party-state, the role of elites and the cadre system, legal refo