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 in...

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.