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Comparison Between Chinese and Western Legal Principles: Rule of Man and Rule of Law

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A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Legal Language and Culture

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The differences in the cultural patterns in China and in the west make the modern Chinese and Western legal cultures inevitably reject and conflict with each other.

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Zhang, F. (2021). Comparison Between Chinese and Western Legal Principles: Rule of Man and Rule of Law. In: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Legal Language and Culture. Peking University Linguistics Research, vol 4. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9347-5_6

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