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Transforming the Hong Kong legal machine : gender and familial law in jurisprudence / Man-Chung Chiu.
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Springer Nature - Springer Law and Criminology eBooks 2022 English International- Format:
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- English
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- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Gateway East, Singapore : Springer, [2022]
- Contents:
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- Intro
- Preface
- Introduction
- Re/Conceptualizing Transformation
- Themes of the Book
- Possible Solutions
- Schedule of Chapters
- Credits
- References
- Contents
- Part I Transplanting Concepts, Engaging the Local
- 1 Beyond Colonialism (1): Destablization of Han-Chinese Traditional Socio-legal Culture
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Reconstruction of Indigenous Han-Chinese Socio-legal Traditions in Contemporary Hong Kong
- 1.3 Differences Within (Orthodox) Confucian-Centric Harmonious Han-Chinese Socio-legal Culture
- 1.3.1 YIN-YANG Interaction: Historicizing the Politics of Harmony
- 1.3.2 From li (Social Moral Order) to fa 法 (Law): Construction of Confucius's and Mencius's Politics of Harmony
- 1.3.3 Xun Zi's and Han Fei Zi's Emphasis of fa: Differences within Confucianism
- 1.4 Re-Interpretation of YIN-YANG Cosmology: Daoist Destabilization of Essential Human Subjectivity in Han-Chinese Socio-legal Philosophy
- 1.5 Judicial Mechanism of Karmic Seeds: The Buddhist Jurisprudential Re-Construction of Contextual Subjectivity
- 1.6 Challenges of a Monolithic Han-Chinese Socio-legal Culture
- 1.6.1 Foucauldian Desexualization and Degenderization-Possible Reform Strategies?
- 1.6.2 Sensitizing a Theory of Justice Towards Gender/Sexual Politics
- 1.6.3 Is Infiltration of Desexualization, Degenderization and Theory of Justice Possible?
- 1.6.4 Infiltration of Desexualization
- 1.6.5 Infiltration of Degenderization
- 1.6.6 Infiltration of Theory of Justice
- 1.7 The Story is Still Ongoing …
- 2 Beyond Colonialism (2): Deconstruction of Han-Chinese Traditional (Alternative) Socio-legal Culture
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Indigenous Han-Chinese Socio-legal Culture in Contemporary Hong Kong
- 2.3 Differences and Challenges within Han-Chinese Socio-legal Culture: Xun Zi, Han Fei Zi, Zhu Zi and Mādhyamika.
- 2.3.1 The Traditional Han-Chinese Legal Concept-The Dynamics Among li, fa and lu
- 2.3.2 Xun Zi: The Emphasis of fa in li
- 2.3.3 Han Fei Zi: Hegemony of fa
- 2.3.4 Zhu Zi: Hybridity in the Name of Confucianism
- 2.3.5 Judicial Mechanism of Karmic Seeds: The Buddhist Jurisprudential Construction of Contextual Subjectivity
- 2.4 Problematization and Hybridization of Han-Chinese Socio-legal Culture
- 3 A Hybrid of Harmony and Resistance at the Margin: Articulating a Theory of Justice in Hong Kong Han-Chinese Culture
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Transplantation: Mission Impossible?
- 3.2.1 Postcolonialization of Transplantation Models: The Mythologization of Cultural Conflict
- 3.2.2 From Bhabha's Hybridization to Chang's Transcultural Articulation
- 3.3 Transcultural Articulation of Justice in Han-Chinese Culture
- 3.3.1 Locating Similarities: yi/Justice in the Contexts of Confucianism, Buddhism and Rawlsian Theory
- 3.4 Osmosis of Cultures: Modification Possible?
- 3.5 Conclusion
- Part II Becoming Justice, Desiring Transformation
- 4 Un/Controlling Desire, Becoming Others: Negotiating Justice in the Hong Kong Milieu of the Mainland Pregnant Women Influx
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Production and Intensification of Mainlanders vs HongKongians Binarism
- 4.3 Rawlsian Justice: Rationalizing Desire, Devising Justice
- 4.3.1 Rawlsian Perspective on Law and Justice
- 4.4 Mahāyāna Buddhist Schools of Vijñānamatra 唯 : Going Beyond Desire, Constructing Justice
- 4.5 The Deleuzian Machine of Justice: Becoming the Least Advantaged Group
- 4.5.1 The Deleuzian Perspective on Law and Justice
- 4.6 Conclusion
- 5 Simularizing Vijñāna and Desire, Reproducing yi and Justice: Osmotic Production of Justice in the Condition of Hong Kong's Anti Domestic Violence Law
- 5.1 Introduction.
- 5.2 Hong Kong Anti Domestic Violence Law Reform in 2008 and 2009
- 5.3 Time is Always Out of Joint: Is the Past Always with Us?
- 5.4 Becoming Powerless: The Deleuzian Machine of Justice
- 5.5 Engaging Foreign Concepts in Hong Kong Culture: Where are the Simularities?
- 5.5.1 Daoist and Confucian Perspectives on History: Medium of Promotion?
- 5.5.2 Buddhist Perspective on Time/History: Beyond Past/Present Dichotomy
- 5.5.3 yi and Equality = Justice in Han-Chinese Culture?
- 5.6 Conclusion
- 6 Desiring Justice, Acting Anātman: Transforming the Legal Transsexual Fantasy from the Perspectives of Žižekian and Mahāyāna Buddhist Philosophies
- 6.1 Introduction: Transsexual Marriage and Rawlsian Justice
- 6.2 Žižekian Jouissance on Fantasy and Superego: Justice Acts
- 6.2.1 The Žižekian Perspective on Law and Justice
- 6.3 Mahāyāna Buddhist Jurisprudence: Constructing Justice Beyond Desire
- 6.4 Conclusion
- 7 'Confession of Law?': A Critical Perspective on the Production of the Child Subject in Hong Kong Law Controlling Child Sexual Abuse
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Criminal Law Relating to Child Sexual Abuse in Hong Kong
- 7.2.1 Evidence: Rules on Corroboration and Past Sexual History
- 7.2.2 Sentencing
- 7.2.3 Proposals of the Hong Kong Law Reform Commission
- 7.3 The Child in Criminal Law Controlling Sexual Assault: Is a Child Subject Essentially Innocent?
- 7.4 Deleuzian Perspective on the (Child) Subject: Becoming Forever Goes On
- 7.4.1 Body Without Age and Sex Organ: De-Ageing as a Resistance Strategy
- 7.5 Further Legal Reform: De-Ageing as a Starting Point
- Appendix 1: Offences with Extra-Territorial Effect
- Appendix 2: Summary of Criminal Offences and Related Penalties
- Appendix 3: Offences which can be Checked According to the Proposed Sexual Offenders Registry
- References.
- 8 Deterritorializing Sexuality, Act(less)ing Justice: Žižekian/Deleuzian/Lao Zi's Perspective on Hong Kong Law Reform on Sexual Offences
- 8.1 Proposal of the Hong Kong Law Reform Commission
- 8.2 Žižekian Jouissance on Desire and Law: Acting Justice
- 8.2.1 Is Justice Always a Fantasy?
- 8.2.2 Žižekian Justice: To Act, Not to Be Instructed to Enjoy
- 8.3 The Deleuzian Machine of Justice: Becoming the Powerless in the Legal-Sexual Machine
- 8.3.1 Deleuzian Justice = Desexualizing Law?
- 8.4 Lao Zi's yi/Justice Beyond Desire: The 'Actionless-ness' of Natural Cosmology
- 8.4.1 Actionless-ness: A Daoist Perspective on Law and yi/Justice
- 8.5 Engaging Foreign Concepts with Hong Kong Culture: Where Are the Simularities?
- List of Cases
- List of Legislation
- Index.
- Notes:
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- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Chiu, Man-Chung Transforming the Hong Kong Legal Machine
- ISBN:
- 9789811912726
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