Law and Justice in China's New Marketplace

by Ronald C. Keith

Overview

Law and Justice in China's New Marketplace provides the first comprehensive multidisciplinary analysis of the jurisprudence and related law underlying the contemporary Chinese transition to the 'socialist market economy'. New 'pluralized jurisprudence' has moved beyond Marxist class analysis to consider a new balance of values relating to economic efficiency and social justice in the marketplace, and yet the interior debates and perspectives concerning these values are virtually unknown in the Western scholarly literature. By analysing the changing Chinese approach in law to the adjustment of social interests in the context of profound economic change , Law and Justice in China's New Marketplace provides a unique reference tool. It outlines the new vocabulary of market jurisprudence and law and examines new legal thinking on rights protection with reference to widely ranging and often hot internal debate over human rights, property law and procedural or judicial justice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349415366
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2001
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
Pages:	315
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.99(h) x (d)

About the Author

RONALD C. KEITH is Professor of Political Science and Head of Department at the University of Calgary. He is co-editor of Comparative Political Philosophy: Studies under the Upas Tree, and Regionalism and Multilateralism in the Politics of Global Trade, editor of Energy, Security and Economic Development in East Asia and author of The Diplomacy of Zhou Enlai and of China's Struggle for the Rule of Law.

ZHIQIU LIN is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University, Canada. He has co-authored several articles related to Chinese criminal law and criminal procedure law.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Pluralized Juriprudence in the Socialist Market The 'Special Grouping' of the Human Rights of Women, Children, Handicapped and Elderly Justice and Efficiency in Contractual Labour Relations Sorting Our Property and Ownership Rights Balancing Society and the Individual in Judicial Justice The Law and the Market at the Crossroads of Justice and Efficiency Notes and References Abbreviated Listing of Prominent Jurists Select Glossary of Chinese Political/Legal Terms Select English-Chinese Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

Delving into the correlations and contradictions between law and justice in China's transitional market economy, Keith (political science, U. of Calgary, Canada) and Lin (sociology and anthropology, Carlton U., Canada) tell the story of a newly emerging jurisprudence, . They plot the many points of controversy surrounding the purposes and values of Chinese law along a single continuum between the complex Chinese concepts of a market economy and socialist rule. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"For those who are interested in the outcomes shaped by China's emerging legal system, this book serves as an introduction..." - Journal of Asian Studies

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