1st Edition
Legal Transplantation in Early Twentieth-Century China Practicing law in Republican Beijing (1910s-1930s)
Biography
Michael H.K. Ng is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong. He specializes in Chinese legal history, historical GIS, comparative law, and corporate and investment law. His works in Chinese legal history have appeared in the International Journal of Asian Studies (Cambridge), Journal of Comparative Law (London), Journal of Legal History Studies (Taipei, Academia Sinica), Hong Kong Law Journal and Annals of GIS, among others. He has also authored a book: Foreign Direct Investment in China – Theories and Practices (Routledge, 2013).
Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong, Dr. Ng served in the legal and finance sectors for more than 15 years as a commercial lawyer, finance director, and chief investment officer at various corporations. After leaving the legal and business sectors, he obtained his PhD in Chinese legal history and began his career in academia.
'This book provides a readable and clear account of the legal practices in the first three decades of the Republican era, which fills a gap in the legal history of China, and therefore much welcomed. Its archival research provides a new understanding of the period, by drawing attention to its process of assimilation of the traditional and Western legal systems.' —Song-Chuan CHEN, Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Technological University, Singapore
‘Michael Ng's important study of the legal institutions of early twentieth century Beijing makes a major contribution to our knowledge of the legal order of Republican China. At the same time, it illuminates the complex interactions between the late imperial tradition, surviving in unexpected ways, and the transplanted institutions of liberal legal modernity.’ — Teemu Ruskola, Professor of Law, Emory University, U.S.A.
