Power versus Law in Modern China

Power versus Law in Modern China
Author: Qiang Fang,Xiaobing Li
Publsiher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2017-11-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780813173955

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Today 700 million Chinese citizens -- more than fifty-four percent of the population -- live in cities. The mass migration of rural populations to urban centers increased rapidly following economic reforms of the 1990s, and serious problems such as overcrowding, lack of health services, and substandard housing have arisen in these areas since. China's urban citizens have taken to the courts for redress and fought battles over failed urban renewal projects, denial of civil rights, corruption, and abuse of power.In Power versus Law in Modern China, Qiang Fang and Xiaobing Li examine four important legal cases that took place from 1995 to 2013 in the major cities of Wuhan, Xuzhou, Shanghai, and Chongqing. In these cases, citizens protested demolition of property, as well as corruption among city officials, developers, and landlords; but were repeatedly denied protection or compensation from the courts. Fang and Li explore how new interest groups comprised of entrepreneurs and Chinese graduates of Western universities have collaborated with the CCP-controlled local governments to create new power bases in cities. Drawing on newly available official sources, private collections, and interviews with Chinese administrators, judges, litigants, petitioners, and legal experts, this interdisciplinary analysis reveals the powerful and privileged will most likely continue to exploit the legal asymmetry that exists between the courts and citizens.

Treaty Ports in Modern China

Treaty Ports in Modern China
Author: Robert Bickers,Isabella Jackson
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2016-05-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781317266280

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This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports – the key strategic places on China’s coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries various foreign powers controlled, through "unequal treaties", whole cities or parts of cities, outside the jurisdiction of the Chinese authorities. Topics covered include land and how it was acquired, the flow of people, good and information, specific individuals and families who typify life in the treaty ports, and technical advances, exploration, and innovation in government.

Law and Politics in Modern China

Law and Politics in Modern China
Author: Sharron Gu
Publsiher: Cambria Press
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781604976045

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This is an original interdisciplinary study of Chinese law, its language, and political institution. Evolving within a complex literary framework over thousands of years, Chinese language has lost its conceptual distinctiveness to its multilevel and overlapping meanings and connotations. Chinese law has become inflated with contrary rulings and exceptions. This mass of rules requires an extra-lingual (legal) authority to redefine boundaries and specify applications. This book follows and continues the author's, The Boundaries of Meaning and the Formation of Law (McGill University Press) by illustrating how language shapes the formation, application, and administration of law in various cultural environments. Law and Politics in Modern China is an important book for those interested in Chinese history, culture, law, and politics. It also provides refreshing insights about the way that law continues to function after its language matures and creates contradictions and loopholes within its system of rules--one of the most important issues facing Western legal administration in the immediate future.

Right Power and Faquanism

Right  Power  and Faquanism
Author: Zhiwei Tong
Publsiher: BRILL
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2018-08-13
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9789004381285

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In Right, Power, and Faquanism, Tong Zhiwei proposes that right and power are ultimately a unified entity named faquan, and that the purpose of law should be to establish a balanced faquan structure and to promote its preservation and proliferation.

Treaty Ports in Modern China

Treaty Ports in Modern China
Author: Robert Bickers,Isabella Jackson
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2016-05-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781317266273

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This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports – the key strategic places on China’s coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries various foreign powers controlled, through "unequal treaties", whole cities or parts of cities, outside the jurisdiction of the Chinese authorities. Topics covered include land and how it was acquired, the flow of people, good and information, specific individuals and families who typify life in the treaty ports, and technical advances, exploration, and innovation in government.

The Road to the Rule of Law in Modern China

The Road to the Rule of Law in Modern China
Author: Quanxi Gao,Wei Zhang,Feilong Tian
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2015-01-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9783662456378

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This book is a grand review of the centurial development of rule of law in China. It covers the most important issues in this area and presents “political constitution,” a new interpretative framework that allows the Chinese experience of rule of law to be more fully and correctly expressed. It is especially useful to scholars involved in the study of modern China. The main chapters of this book include: The Constituent Movement in the Late Qing Dynasty; The Xinhai (1911) Revolution; Constitution-making at the Beginning of the Republic of China; The Great Revolution in the 1920s; The Rise of the Party State and its Transition; The Founding of 1949 New China and its Early Constitutional Development; and The Dualist System of Rule of Law in the Reforming Times.

Sovereign Power and the Law in China

Sovereign Power and the Law in China
Author: Flora Sapio
Publsiher: BRILL
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2010-07-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789004187689

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This work undertakes an analysis of extra-legal institutions in China’s criminal justice, explaining their resilience and entrenchment with the thesis that sovereign power is premised on juridical mechanisms that allow the suspension of rights.

Rural Land Takings Law in Modern China

Rural Land Takings Law in Modern China
Author: Chun Peng
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781107190931

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A contextualized and critical reading of the origin and evolution of China's rural land takings law.