China, Democracy, and Law : : A Historical and Contemporary Approach.

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China Series ; v.26
• Author: Delmas-Marty, Mireille.
• TeilnehmendeR: Will, Pierre-Étienne.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2011.; ©2012.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (925 pages)

This landmark volume deals with such essential questions as: What points of departure, or resources, can be identified in Chinese history and culture for what we call 'democracy'? What are, and have been, their potential for development in a modern China confronted with powerful Western influences? Are there any connections between imperial China's strong legal tradition and the PRC's current endeavour to restore the rule of law, in a context of legal globalization in which China itself is an important participant? How serious, or superficial, should the political opening which started in the 1980s be regarded, and the discourse on human rights currently heard in official circles? And finally, how relevant is Taiwan's experiment with democratic institutions? Ouvrage publié avec le soutien du Centre national du livre/ Published with financial support by the Centre national du livre.

Table of Contents

Introduction : history has no end / Pierre-Etienne Will -- Despotism, "Democratic China" and nineteenth-century European / Pierre-Etienne Will-- Seeds of democracy in the Confucian tradition / Anne Cheng -- Checking abuses of power under the Ming dynasty / Pierre-Etienne Will -- The principle of legality and legal rules in the Chinese legal tradition / Jérôme Bourgon -- The emergence of a community of jurists in the late imperial and early republican periods (1740-1930) / Jerome Bourgon -- The appropriation of the concept of "liberty" at the end of the Qing dynasty : beginning with the interpretation of Kant / by Liang / Joël Thoraval -- The first democratic experiment in China (1908-1914) : Chinese tradition and local elite practices / Xiaohong Xiao-Planes -- Constitutions and constitutionalism : trying to build a new political order (1908--1949) / Xiaohong Xiao-Planes -- The Chinese contribution to the universal declaration of human rights / Pierre-Etienne Will -- Anti-tradition and democracy in China at the start of twentieth century : national culture and the crisis of the nation-state / Yves Chevrier -- Elusive democracy (1915--1937) / Yves Chevrier -- Servant, bogeyman or goddess : democracy in the discourses of power and dissidence in China / Michel Bonnin -- Instituting the rule of law in china in the context of globalization / Mireille Delmas-Marty -- Law and society in contemporary China / Stephanie Balme -- China's accession to the WTO and legal reform : towards the rule of law via internationalization without democracy? / Leila Choukroune -- The renaissance of the legal profession in China / Jean-Pierre Cabestan ... [et al.] -- Democracy under one-party rule? on village and Canton elections in China / Gunter Schubert -- The Democratic Experience and Election Culture on Taiwan / Fiorella Allio -- Conclusion : the Chinese laboratory / Mireille Delmas-Marty.