The limits of the rule of law in China / edited by Karen G. Turner, James V. Feinerman, and R. Kent Guy.
2000
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Title
The limits of the rule of law in China / edited by Karen G. Turner, James V. Feinerman, and R. Kent Guy.
Published
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2000]
Copyright
©2000
Call Number
KNQ2025 .L56 2000
Former Call Number
Ch.P 910 L629 2000
ISBN
0295979070 (alk. paper)
Description
xiv, 348 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)41531616
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Foreword / Wejen Chang
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Problem of Paradigms / Karen G. Turner
3
1
Conceptions and Receptions of Legality: Understanding the Complexity of Law Reform in Modern China / Yuanyuan Shen
20
2
Law, Law, What Law? Why Western Scholars of China Have Not Had More to Say about Its Law / William P. Alford
45
3
Using the Past to Make a Case for the Rule of Law / Jonathan K. Ocko
65
4
Rule of Man and the Rule of Law in China: Punishing Provincial Governors during the Qing / R. Kent Guy
88
5
Collective Responsibility in Qing Criminal Law / Joanna Waley-Cohen
112
6
True Confessions? Chinese Confessions Then and Now / Alison W. Conner
132
7
Law and Discretion in Contemporary Chinese Courts / Margaret Y. K. Woo
163
8
Equality and Justice in Official and Popular Views about Civil Obligations: China and Taiwan / Pitman B. Potter
196
9
Language and Law: Sources of Systemic Vagueness and Ambiguous Authority in Chinese Statutory Language / Claudia Ross Lester Ross
221
10
The Future of Federalism in China / Tahirih V. Lee
271
11
The Rule of Law Imposed from Outside: China's Foreign-Oriented Legal Regime since 1978 / James V. Feinerman
304
Epilogue: The Deep Roots of Resistance to Law Codes and Lawyers in China / Jack L. Dull
325
Contributors
331
Index
335