Rethinking Chinese jurisprudence and exploring its future : a sociology of knowledge perspective / Zhenglai Deng ; translated by Lin Xi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deng, Zhenglai, author.

Contributor:

Xi, Lin, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Social aspects--China.

Law.

Sociological jurisprudence--China.

Sociological jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Place of Publication:

Singapore : World Scientific, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is an antecedent study on the task facing China's legal science, more strictly speaking - China's legal philosophy, in post-Cold War world structure. In broader terms, this is an academic study of China's own "identity" and future in the world structure. The author believes that from 1978 to 2004, in spite of its great achievements, China's legal science has at the same time had some of its grave problems of being exposed. A fundamental problem is its failure to provide a "Chinese legal ideal picture" as the standard of and direction for evaluating, assessing and guiding China's law/

Contents:

Biography; Contents; Foreword to the First Edition; Foreword to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; Translator's Note; Introduction; 1. To Ask a Question: "China" as the Base of OurThoughts and the Object of Our Understanding; 2. To Construct the Theoretical Topic of this Book: Ideal Picture(s); 3. Analytical Concept of this Book: Paradigm; 4. The Framework of Argumentation in this Book; Chapter 1 China's Legal Science and the "Paradigm of Modernization"; 1. Determining in Details the Approach to Analysis in this Book

2. An Analysis of and Reflection on "Rights Foundationalism" and Its Basic Arguments3. An Analysis of and Reflection on " Legalism" and Its Basic Arguments; 4. The Revelations of the "Paradigm of Modernization"; Chapter 2 A Critique and Reflection on the "Paradigm of Modernization"; 1. After the "West"; 2. An Analysis of the Origin of the "Paradigm of Modernization"; 3. Critique of the Paradigm of "Modernization"; 4. The Domination of the "Paradigm of Modernization" on the Development of China's Legal Science

Chapter 3 The Absence of "China" in Chinese Legal Scholarship: A Case Study of the Legal Research on "Consumers' Rights"1. The Issues in this Chapter; 2. The Predicament of Protecting "Consumers' Rights" in China: "Urbanization"; 3. The "Urbanization" Trend in China's Legal Science; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Further Critical Examination of China's Legal Science (1): A Critique of Liang Zhiping's "Legal Culturalism"; 1. The Definition and Analysis of Liang Zhiping's "Legal Culturalism"; 1.1. Antecedent Explanation; 1.2. Constructing Related Issues

1.3. An Analysis of the Problem of the Legal-Cultural Study1.3.1. Su Li's Explanation of Liang's Legal Research; 1.3.2. Liang's Own Ex Post Explanation; 1.4. Analyses of Liang's Legal Research in This Book; 2. An Analysis and Critique of Liang's Basic Views in "Legal Culturalism"; 2.1. Determinism on the Legal Regime in " Cultural Archetypes"; 2.2. A Transition from "Reference" to "Benchmark" and the Transplantation of the Western "Cultural Archetype"; 2.3. An Analysis and Critique of the Deterministic "Cultural Archetype"

Chapter 5 Further Examination of China's Legal Science (Part 2): A Critique of Su Li's "Indigenous Resourcism"1. Introduction: An Outline of the "Indigenous Law"; 2. An Analysis and Critique of the Basic Views of "Indigenous Resourcism"; 2.1 Antecedent Explanations; 2.2 Reconstructing the Approach to Argumentation or the Internal Logic of "Indigenous Resourcism"; 2.3 An Analysis and Critique of the Basic Approach in "Indigenous Resourcism"; Chapter 6 Some Tentative Concluding Remarks; Postscript; Bibliography; Annex: The List of Publications by the Author; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

981-4440-31-0