1st Edition

Chinese Constitutionalism in a Global Context

By Peng Chengyi Copyright 2019
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

Over the course of the last four decades as China’s ideological realm has been transformed, it has become significantly more complicated. This is well illustrated in the current discourse concerning China’s constitutional future. Among Chinese intellectuals the liberal constitutionalism paradigm is widely accepted. However, more recently, this perspective has been challenged by mainland New... Read more

1. Introduction; 2. Conceptual Frameworks towards Constitutionalism in China; 3. Western Liberal Constitutionalism in China: Its History, Core Claims, and Challenges; 4. Traditional Confucian Constitutionalism: Current Explorations and Its Prospects; 5. Sinicized Marxist Constitutionalism: Its Emergence, Contents and Implications; 6. The Romance of "Three Constitutional Kingdoms": Who will Unify the World? 7. Implications for the World; Appendix Zhuangzi’s View on Non-action as the Panacea of Peace; Index

Biography

PENG Chengyi is currently a full-time research fellow of the Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. Previously he attained his PhD degree in the Department of Public and Social Administration at City University of Hong Kong and his BA and MA degrees in political science at St. Thomas University and University of British Columbia in Canada respectively. His research interests include constitutionalism, comparative political philosophy, world political thoughts and corruption prevention in contemporary China.