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China’s Struggle for the Rule of Law

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  • © 1994

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  1. Ronald C. Keith

    1. University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. China’s Struggle for the Rule of Law

    • Ronald C. Keith
    Pages 1-38

  3. The Rule of Law within Comparative Legal Cultures

    • Ronald C. Keith
    Pages 39-53

  4. The Conceptualisation and Materialisation of Human Rights

    • Ronald C. Keith
    Pages 54-87

  5. Civil Law and ‘Civil Society’ under a ‘Socialist Rule of Law’?

    • Ronald C. Keith
    Pages 88-120

  6. Law as the Contractual Predicate of Ownership Rights

    • Ronald C. Keith
    Pages 121-142

  7. Politics and Criminal Law Change under Reform

    • Ronald C. Keith
    Pages 143-180

  8. Hong Kong and the Rule of Law across ‘Two Systems’

    • Ronald C. Keith
    Pages 181-207

  9. Conclusion: Before and After Tiananmen Square

    • Ronald C. Keith
    Pages 208-225

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 226-290
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The 'rule of law' is more than the mere existence and application of law within the sphere of state activity. Contemporary Chinese debate on the 'rule of law' underlines the limiting of arbitrary government, the materialisation of 'human rights', legal protection of 'rights and interests' and the principle of equality in the impartial legal mediation of conflicts within society's 'structure of interests'. Based upon China interviews and a comprehensive survey of the domestic press and Chinese-language legal journal materials, this book places pre- and post-Tiananmen Square legal reform in political context. The evolving contents of specific laws across the departments of constitutional, administrative, criminal, civil and economic law are assessed in light of the politics and intellectual dynamic of China's legal circles in their struggle to create a 'rule of law'.

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  • University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Ronald C. Keith

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