Useful bullshit : constitutions in Chinese politics and society / Neil J. Diamant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diamant, Neil J., 1964- author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional law--Social aspects--China.

Constitutional law.

Constitutional law--Political aspects--China.

Constitutional history--Social aspects--China.

Constitutional history.

Legitimacy of governments--China.

Legitimacy of governments.

Sociological jurisprudence--China.

Sociological jurisprudence.

China--Politics and government--History.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 269 pages)

Place of Publication:

2022.

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.

Summary:

In 'Useful Bullshit', Neil J. Diamant pulls back the curtain on early constitutional conversations between citizens and officials in the PRC. Scholars have argued that China, like the former USSR, promulgated constitutions to enhance its domestic and international legitimacy by opening up the constitution-making process to ordinary people, and by granting its citizens political and socioeconomic rights. Drawing upon a wealth of archival sources from the Maoist and reform eras, Diamant deals with all facets of this constitutional discussion, as well as its afterlives in the late '50s, the Cultural Revolution, and the post-Mao era.

Contents:

Introduction : constitutions, legitimacy, and interpreting popular commentary

Officials read the draft constitution

The draft constitution in China's business community

Popular constitutionalism

Reading about rights and obligations

Christians, Buddhists, and ethnic minorities

Constitutional afterlives

Conclusion : the meanings of the constitution and comparative perspectives.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 3, 2022).

ISBN:

9781501761287

1-5017-7016-0

1-5017-6129-3

OCLC:

1245958807