Building constitutionalism in China
By: edited by Stéphanie Balme and Michael W. Dowdle.
Contributors: Balme, Stéphanie.; Dowdle, Michael W.
Series: Sciences Po series in international relations and political economy
Publisher: Palgrave-Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York City, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230600324
Subjects: Constitutional law -- China -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Based on an international conference on "Constitutionalism and Judicial Power in China" at Sciences Po (CERI) in Paris in December 2005--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Exploring for constitutionalism in 21st century China / Stéphanie Balme; title: Judicial politics as state-building / Zhu Suli; title: Of constitutions and constitutionalism : trying to build a new political order in China, 1908-1949 / Xiaohong Xiao-Planes; title: Epistrophy : Chinese constitutionalism and the 1950s / Glenn D. Tiffert; title: Middle income blues : the east Asian model and implications for constitutional development in China / Randall P. Peerenboom; title: China's constitutional research and teaching : a state of the art / Tong Zhiwei; title: Western constitutional ideas and constitutional discourse in China, 1978-2005 / Yu Xingzhong; title: To take the law as the public : the diversification of society and legal discourse in contemporary China / Ji Weidong; title: Administrative law as a mechanism for political control in contemporary China / He Xin; title: Access to justice and constitutionalism in China / Fu Hualing; title: Ordinary justice and popular constitutionalism in China / Stéphanie Balme; title: Beyond judicial power : courts and constitutionalism in modern China / Michael W. Dowdle; title: Citizens engage the constitution : the Sun Zhigang incident and constitutional review proposals in the People's Republic of China / Keith J. Hand; title: Rights activism in China : the case of lawyer Gao Zhisheng / Eva Pils; title: Virtual constitutionalism in the late Ming dynasty / Pierre-Étienne Will.