Peking: The Supreme Court, 1920. — 116 p. In days of the old regime civil cases were decided more like by arbitration than by a judicial process; for, except the law of succession and marriage there was hardly any law to go by; while in criminal cases decisions could be based on analogy and the judge was even allowed to make punishable an act which in his opinion should not...
Translated by Edmund Ryden. — Princeton University Press, 2018. — 292 p. How was the vast ancient Chinese empire brought together and effectively ruled? What are the historical origins of the resilience of contemporary China's political system? InThe Constitution of Ancient China, Su Li, China's most influential legal theorist, examines the ways in which a series of fundamental...
Leiden, Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2006. — 279 p. This book is the outcome of the first phase of a long-term research project on “Legal Reform in China”. Although most of its chapters are articles previously published in international journals and/or edited books, it is this author’s desire to combine them into a single text so as to assist people who are interested...
Westport, Connecticut, London: Greenwood Press. 1997. — 198 p. Confucianism and communism may not seem to have much in common, but in contemporary China there is a remarkably new conversion of these concepts into compatibility. The values of Li laid against the maxims of Marxism are found to be fertile ground for political ideology and even a thriving twentieth-century morality.
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2007. — 333 p. Translation, Reception and Discourse, 1847-1911. The resources made available to me in Germany included access to good libraries and collections of relevant texts. Further research into the textual histories of these translations and the various sources for the discourse on international issues in late imperial Chinese periodicals was also...
New York, London: M. E. Sharpe, 2006. — 312 p. This book is a modest attempt to understand the connection between the rule of law and democracy, two key issues that face political reformers in China today as well as political leaders of many other countries in the process of political change.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 274 p. This is the first book in English on judicial independence in China. This may not seem surprising given China remains an effectively single-party socialist authoritarian state, the widely reported prosecutions of political dissidents and the conventional wisdom that China has never had independent courts.
London, New York: Routledge, 2011. — 270 p. Overview Political authority in the Inner Periphery. Socio-cultural relations in the Inner Periphery. Economy and development in the Inner Periphery. Implications for the Outer Periphery. Bibliography: Chinese. Bibliography: English.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 573 p. All human associations face some problems of deviance and must respond when they feel threatened. When looking at the responses of any human group, we can see commonalities, people doing things in the same way for the same reasons. As the focus of inquiry narrows, the shared traits of the broader levels are retained, but in...
Singapore: Singapore Pte Ltd., 2019. — 433 p. It is often said that a constitution is a nation’s basic law, that it stipulates the nation’s basic political, economic, and legal systems, that it embodies the institutionalization and legalization of the democratic system, and that it manifests the balance of power amongst the nation’s social classes. Put in clear and simple...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 233 p. In writing this book and pursuing my graduate study, I received enormous intellectual guidance, support, and friendship from various individuals and institutions. I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge them. This book began as a political science dissertation at the University of Chicago.
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1997. — 233 p. Hong Kong, a community traditionally preoccupied with the maximization of economic value and shunning international political attention, has found itself since the early 1980s in the centre of events of a distinetly transnational character.
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1999. — 710 p. Hong Kong's new legal order was, like Rome, not built in a day. And the construction continues. Though its architecture was formulated in the Sino-British Joint Declaration, and its foundations laid by the Basic Law, it would be premature to determine the resilience of the edifice. The essays collected here nevertheless...
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1996. — 354 p. The 'sources' of law can be formal, historical, literary, or legal, the last-named being the means by which the law is created or changed (or perhaps merely differently perceived). This book is principally about the various legal sources of the law - old and new, written and 'unwritten', home-grown and imported - to which...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 276 p. The chapters in this book arose from a Centre for Comparative and Public Law conference that was supported by the Faculty of Law, the University of Hong Kong, and the Constitutional Law Project, funded by the University of Hong Kong’s Strategic Research Theme initiative. In addition, we would like to thank Cheng Yulin, Choy Dick Wan,...
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. — xii, 262 p. — (Hong Kong culture and society). — ISBN: 9789622099302. 香港：香港大學出版社 . Law Wing Sang provides an alternative lens for looking into Hong Kong’s history by breaking away for the usual colonial and nationalist interpretations. Drawing on both English and Chinese sources, he argues that, from the early colonial era,...
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Christian Institute, 1994. — vi, 127 p. — ISBN: 9627471143. This book is dedicated to its readers, primarily non-Chinese and non-Hong Kong residents, who share my concern for Hong Kong. I do not ask readers to agree with what is in this book; however, I implore readers to take an alternative view of Hong Kong. I want to pay tribute to the many Hong Kong...
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. — xii, 360 p.: ill. — ISBN: 9789622099968. 香港大學出版社。 Underground Front is a pioneering examination of the role that the Chinese Communist Party has played in Hong Kong since the creation of the Party in 1921, through to the present day. This book brings events right up to date and includes the results of a survey about the Hong Kong...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 504 p. Using a new conceptual framework, the author examines the processes of legal reform in post-socialist countries such as China. Drawing on Bourdieu’s concept of the ‘field’, the increasingly complex and contested processes of legal reform are analysed in relation to police powers. The impact of China’s post-1978 legal reforms on police...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 244 p. — (Cambridge Modern China Series). The Modern Chinese State is the first book to examine systematically the evolution of the Chinese state from the late Ming Dynasty of the 17th century, through the Nationalist and Communist party states of the 20th century, and into the 21st century. Leading scholars on modern China carefully assess...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 693 p. China has enjoyed considerable economic growth in recent years in spite of an immature, albeit rapidly developing, legal system; a system whose nature, evolution, and path of development have been little explored and poorly understood by scholars. Drawing on his legal and business experience in China as well as his academic background...
Stanford University Press, 2012. — 411 p. From 1885–1924, China underwent a period of acute political struggle and cultural change, brought on by a radical change in thought: after over 2,000 years of monarchical rule, the Chinese people stopped believing in the emperor. These forty years saw the collapse of Confucian political orthodoxy and the struggle among competing...
Seattle - London: University of Washington Press, 2007. — xvi, 344 p. (Asian law series). — ISBN: 9780295986913. The judicial review process produced voluminous case narratives, and at the local level the accused and the aggrieved submitted ever more inventive complaints, all of which had to be investigated and commented upon. Even the imperial penal codes themselves required...
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press Co. Ltd, 2014. — ISBN: 978-7-119-09057-3. Review "The Governance of China [was]…laid out on a table at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit's media center. It's unusual to see such a publication issued for a Chinese leader still in office." —U.S. News and World Report "Xi's compilation of speeches and writings, "The Governance of China,"...
Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2013. — xii, 462 p. (A China program book) — ISBN: 9780295992952. This book uses the records of provincial governors’ appointments made under four emperors — the Shunzhi emperor (r. 1644–61), the Kangxi emperor (r. 1661– 1723), the Yongzheng emperor (r. 1723–36), and the Qianlong emperor (r. 1736– 96)—to examine the evolution...
Translated and edited by Yuri Pines. — New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. — x, 358 p. — (Translations from the Asian classics). — eISBN 9780231542333. The most important — and least studied — texts of the formative age of Chinese philosophy and political culture, the so- Book of Lord Shang（Shang jun shu 商君書）is one of the called age of the Hundred Schools of Thought...