China, democracy, and law
Subtitle: a historical and contemporary approach
By: edited by Mireille Delmas-Marty and Pierre-Etienne Will ; translated by Naomi Norberg
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 915
ISBN-13: 9789004178717
Subjects: Law; Democracy; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Despotism, "democratic China" and nineteenth-century European / Pierre-Etienne Will; title: Seeds of democracy in the Confucian tradition / Anne Cheng; title: Checking abuses of power under the Ming dynasty / Pierre-Etienne Will; title: The principle of legality and legal rules in the Chinese legal tradition; title: The emergence of a community of jurists in the late imperial and early republican periods (1740-1930) / Jerome Bourgon; title: The appropriation of the concept of "liberty" at the end of the Qing dynasty : beginning with the interpretation of Kant / by Liang; title: The first democratic experiment in China (1908-1914) : Chinese tradition and local elite practices / Xiaohong Xiao-Planes; title: Constitutions and constitutionalism : trying to build a new political order (1908-; title: 1949) / Xiaohong Xiao-Planes; title: The Chinese contribution to the universal declaration of human rights / Pierre-Etienne Will; title: Anti-tradition and democracy in China at the start of twentieth century : national culture and the crisis of the nation-state / Yves Chevrier; title: Elusive democracy (1915-1937) / Yves Chevrier; title: Servant, bogeyman or goddess : democracy in the discourses of power and dissidence in China; title: Instituting the rule of law in china in the context of globalization / Mireille Delmas-Marty; title: Law and society in contemporary China / Stephanie Balme; title: China's accession to the WTO and legal reform : towards the rule of law via internationalization without democracy? / Leila Choukroune; title: The renaissance of the legal profession in China / Jean-Pierre Cabestan ... [et al.]; title: Democracy under one-party rule? on village and Canton elections in China / Gunter Schubert; title: The Democratic Experience and Election Culture on Taiwan / Fiorella Allio.