1st Edition
The Changing Chinese Legal System, 1978-Present Centralization of Power and Rationalization of the Legal System
By Bin Liang
Copyright 2008
268 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
268 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
266 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2. ECONOMIC REFORM AND REINTERPRETATED MARXISM
CHAPTER 3. LEGALIZATION AND CENTRALIZATION OF POWER
CHAPTER 4. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN TRANSITION
CHAPTER 5. CHINA’S GLOBALIZATION
CHAPTER 6. CHINA’S CURRENT COURT SYSTEM: PROCEDURES, ROLE PLAYERS, AND MAIN ISSUES
CHAPTER 7. CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
A RESEARCH PICTURES
B RESEARCH MAPS
C DATELINES OF CHINA’S NEGOTIATION WITH THE WTO
D CASE SUMMARY TABLES
GLOSSARY
Biography
Bin Liang
'...the book is a valuable piece of scholarship in the "law and society" tradition that seeks to place China's legal reform in the last thirty years within the context of its economic, social and political change. It deserves to be read by students and academics who study the contemporary Chinese legal system and are concerned about the prospects for the rule of law in China.' - Albert H. Y. Chen, The China Quarterly, 196, December 2008
