(Source: Routledge)
Routledge has published a new book on
constitutional reforms in China during the 20th century.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This book
examines China’s striving for a constitutional order in the 20th century from
comparative, historical, and theoretical perspectives.
Through a
comprehensive study of six major constitutional reforms experienced by China in
the last century, Shiping Hua explores pragmatism, instrumentalism, statism,
and favoritism as the key features of the Chinese legal culture. Demonstrating
that these characteristics have roots in China’s ancient past and coincide with
modern communist legal theory, it argues that Chinese legal culture has greatly
impacted upon the country’s move to modernize its legal system. By analyzing
key constitutional periods in China’s history, this book also evaluates
patterns that can be used to better comprehend not only China’s present legal
reform but its future legal developments too.
As the first
book to examine how the Chinese legal culture has affected constitutional
reform in the 20th century, Chinese Legal Culture and Constitutional Order will
be useful to students and scholars of Asian and constitutional law, as well as
Chinese Studies more generally.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Shiping Hua is Calvin and Helen Lang
Distinguished Chair in Asian Studies, Director of the Asian Studies Program,
and Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville, USA.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction:
Issues and Questions
2. Law and
Culture: Theory and Method
3. Law in
the Chinese Cultural Tradition
4. The Late
Qing Constitutional Reform: Modernization First, Democracy Second
5. The
Republic of China Constitutional Reform: The Anglo-American Model Modified
6. The
Early PRC Constitutional Reform: The Soviet Model at a Different Stage
7. The
Maoist Constitutional Reform: Governance without Laws
8. The
Dengist Constitutional Reform: The 1954 Constitution Modified
9. The Four
Amendments: Liberalization with Limits
Epilogue:
Recent Events and Interpreting China’s Striving for a Constitutional Order
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