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Conference Paper: 'China's Long March Toward Rule of Law' or 'China's Turn Against Law'?
Title | 'China's Long March Toward Rule of Law' or 'China's Turn Against Law'? |
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Authors | |
Keywords | China Rule of law Orientalism |
Issue Date | 2012 |
Citation | The 2012 Conference on the State in Asia: Power, Citizenship, Rule of Law, Leiden, The Netherlands, 12-14 December 2012. How to Cite? |
Abstract | In 2002, Professor Randall Peerenboom published a major work on legal reforms in post-Mao China, entitled “China’s Long March Toward Rule of Law”. In 2011, Professor Carl Minzner published a major article on trends of legal development in China in the first decade of the 21st century, entitled “China’s Turn Against Law”. Has China really embarked upon a “long march toward Rule of Law” since Deng Xiaoping initiated the era of “reform and opening” in the late 1970s? If so, has there been a regression or retrenchment in Rule of Law developments in China in recent years?
These questions cannot be properly addressed without first reflecting on what methodology or approach we should adopt in describing and assessing legal developments in contemporary China. This paper therefore consists of two main parts. Part I engages in methodological reflections on the study of contemporary Chinese law as an exercise in comparative law, by reviewing and commenting on some relevant writings of leading scholars in the field. Part II of the paper then proceeds to evaluate the legal reforms in post-Mao China and recent trends in the Chinese legal system. |
Description | Morning Session 2 The Conference program's website is located at http://hum.leiden.edu/lias/conference-amt/programme/programme.html |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/187150 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Chen, AHY | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-08-20T12:31:28Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2013-08-20T12:31:28Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | The 2012 Conference on the State in Asia: Power, Citizenship, Rule of Law, Leiden, The Netherlands, 12-14 December 2012. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/187150 | - |
dc.description | Morning Session 2 | - |
dc.description | The Conference program's website is located at http://hum.leiden.edu/lias/conference-amt/programme/programme.html | - |
dc.description.abstract | In 2002, Professor Randall Peerenboom published a major work on legal reforms in post-Mao China, entitled “China’s Long March Toward Rule of Law”. In 2011, Professor Carl Minzner published a major article on trends of legal development in China in the first decade of the 21st century, entitled “China’s Turn Against Law”. Has China really embarked upon a “long march toward Rule of Law” since Deng Xiaoping initiated the era of “reform and opening” in the late 1970s? If so, has there been a regression or retrenchment in Rule of Law developments in China in recent years? These questions cannot be properly addressed without first reflecting on what methodology or approach we should adopt in describing and assessing legal developments in contemporary China. This paper therefore consists of two main parts. Part I engages in methodological reflections on the study of contemporary Chinese law as an exercise in comparative law, by reviewing and commenting on some relevant writings of leading scholars in the field. Part II of the paper then proceeds to evaluate the legal reforms in post-Mao China and recent trends in the Chinese legal system. | - |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | The State in Asia: Power, Citizenship, Rule of Law Conference 2012 | en_US |
dc.subject | China | - |
dc.subject | Rule of law | - |
dc.subject | Orientalism | - |
dc.title | 'China's Long March Toward Rule of Law' or 'China's Turn Against Law'? | en_US |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Chen, AHY: hrllchy@hkucc.hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Chen, AHY=rp01240 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 217884 | en_US |
dc.identifier.ssrn | 2471505 | - |
dc.identifier.hkulrp | 2014/023 | - |