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Introduction: The Problem of Paradigms
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Karen G. Turner
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Foreword vii
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction: The Problem of Paradigms 1
- 1. Conceptions and Receptions of Legality: Understanding the Complexity of Law Reform in Modern China 20
- 2. Law, Law, What Law? Why Western Scholars of China Have Not Had More to Say about Its Law 45
- 3. Using the Past to Make a Case for the Rule of Law 65
- 4. Rule of Man and the Rule of Law in China: Punishing Provincial Governors during the Qing 88
- 5. Collective Responsibility in Qing Criminal Law 112
- 6. True Confessions? Chinese Confessions Then and Now 132
- 7. Law and Discretion in Contemporary Chinese Courts 163
- 8. Equality and Justice in Official and Popular Views about Civil Obligations: China and Taiwan 196
- 9. Language and Law: Sources of Systemic Vagueness and Ambiguous Authority in Chinese Statutory Language 221
- 10. The Future of Federalism in China 271
- 11. The Rule of Law Imposed from Outside: China's Foreign-Oriented Legal Regime since 1978 304
- Epilogue: The Deep Roots of Resistance to Law Codes and Lawyers in China 325
- Contributors 331
- Index 335
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Foreword vii
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction: The Problem of Paradigms 1
- 1. Conceptions and Receptions of Legality: Understanding the Complexity of Law Reform in Modern China 20
- 2. Law, Law, What Law? Why Western Scholars of China Have Not Had More to Say about Its Law 45
- 3. Using the Past to Make a Case for the Rule of Law 65
- 4. Rule of Man and the Rule of Law in China: Punishing Provincial Governors during the Qing 88
- 5. Collective Responsibility in Qing Criminal Law 112
- 6. True Confessions? Chinese Confessions Then and Now 132
- 7. Law and Discretion in Contemporary Chinese Courts 163
- 8. Equality and Justice in Official and Popular Views about Civil Obligations: China and Taiwan 196
- 9. Language and Law: Sources of Systemic Vagueness and Ambiguous Authority in Chinese Statutory Language 221
- 10. The Future of Federalism in China 271
- 11. The Rule of Law Imposed from Outside: China's Foreign-Oriented Legal Regime since 1978 304
- Epilogue: The Deep Roots of Resistance to Law Codes and Lawyers in China 325
- Contributors 331
- Index 335
