A Confucian constitutional order
Subtitle: how China's ancient past can shape its political future
By: Jiang Qing ; edited by Daniel A. Bell and Ruiping Fan ; translated by Edmund Ryden
Contributors: Bell, Daniel (Daniel A.), 1964-; Fan, Ruiping; Ryden, Edmund
Series: The Princeton-China series
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780691154602
Subjects: Politics and government; Confucianism and state; Philosophy; Political and social views
Notes: English translation of materials from a workshop on Confucian constitutionalism in May 2010 at the City University of Hong Kong.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Daniel A. Bell; title: Part I. A Confucian constitutional order: the way of the humane authority: the way ahead for China's political future: the theoretical basis for Confucian constitutionalism and a tri-cameral parliament / Jiang Qing; The supervisory system of Confucian constitutionalism / Jiang Qing; A Confucian constitutionalist state: the constitutional role and Contemporary significance of republicanism under a symbolic monarch / Jiang Qing; title: Part II. Comments: On the legitimacy of Confucian constitution / Joseph Chan; An old mandate for a new state: on Jiang Qing's political confucianism / Bai Tondong; Transcendent heaven? a critique of Jiang Qing's grounding of the right to rule / Li Chenyang; Is the way of the humane authority a good thing? an assessment of Confucian constitutionalism / Wang Shaoguang; title: Part III. Responses to commentators: responses to critics / Jiang Qing.