Contents

Chapters in this book

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