Chinese legal reform and the global legal order : adoption and adaptation / edited by Yun Zhao, the University of Hong Kong, Michael Ng, the University of Hong Kong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zhao, Yun, editor.

Ng, Michael (Writer on law), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law reform--China.

Law reform.

China.

Law--China.

Law.

Human rights--China.

Human rights.

Law and socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 312 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

This volume critically evaluates the latest legal reform of China, covering major areas such as trade and securities law, online privacy law, criminal law, human rights and international law. It represents a bold departure from the most recent works on Chinese legal reform by engaging the ideas of experts in contemporary Chinese law with the archival scholarship of Chinese legal historians. This unique interdisciplinary feature affords readers a more nuanced view of the complexities and specificities of how China has problematised legal reforms in various historical contexts when building a progressive yet sustainable legal system. This volume appraises the most current reform in Chinese law by considering China's engagement with globalisation, increasingly complicated domestic situation and historical legal transplantation experiences. It will be of huge interest to students, researchers and practitioners interested in Chinese law and policy, China and Asian studies and Chinese legal history.

Contents:

The law, China, and the world : an introduction / Yun Zhao and Michael Ng

Punishments in the post re-education through labour world : questions about minor crime in China / Sarah Biddulph

Understanding the presumption of innocence in China : institution and practice / Lin Xifen and Casey Watters

Judicial approach to human rights in transitional China / Shucheng Wang

Public enforcement of securities laws : a case of convergence? / Chao Xi and Xuanming Pan

China's free trade from SEZs to CEPA to FTZs : the Beijing consensus in global convergence and divergence / Wenwei Guan

Achievements and challenges of Chinese maritime judicial practice / Liang Zhao

Interaction of national law-making and international treaties : implementation of the convention against torture in China / Bjorn Ahl

Online privacy protection : a legal regime for personal data protection in China / Yun Zhao

Traditionalising Chinese law : symbolic epistemic violence in the discourse of legal reform and modernity in late Qing China / Li Chen

Judicial orientalism : imaginaries of Chinese legal transplantation in common law / Michael Ng

Commercial arbitration transplanted : a tale of the book industry in modern Shanghai / Billy K.L. So and Sufumi So

China's unilateral abrogation of the Sino-Belgian treaty : case study of an instance of deviant transplantation / Maria Adelel Carrai

Consequential court and judicial leadership : the unwritten Republican judicial tradition in China / Zhaoxin Jiang.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781316855645

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