Chinese Law

  • Chinese Law: Context and Transformation
    By Jianfu Chen

    For studies on customary laws in traditional China, see Liang Zhiping, Customary Law in Qing Dynasty: Society and State (Qingdai Xiguan Fa: Shehui yu Guojiao) (Beijing: China University of Political Science and Law Press, 1996); Liang ...

  • Chinese Law: A Language Perspective
    By Deborah Cao

    Studying Chinese law from a linguistic and communicative perspective, this book examines meaning and language in Chinese law.

  • Chinese Law: Knowledge, Practice, and Transformation, 1530s to 1950s
    By Li Chen, Madeleine Zelin

    Songfa xiaxiang: Zhongguo jiceng sifa zhidu yanjiu 送法下乡:中国基层法律制度研究[Delivering Law to the ... Falü duoyuan shijiao xia de Qingdaiguojiafa 法律多元视角下的清代国家法[Law of the Qing State in Multiple Perspectives].

  • Chinese Law: Knowledge, Practice and Transformation, 1530s to 1950s
    By Li Chen, Madeleine Zelin

    In Chinese Law, edited by Li Chen and Madeleine Zelin, the authors provide valuable perspectives on the transformation, knowledge, practice, and effects of Chinese law and justice in the changing historical context of late imperial and ...

  • Chinese Law: Towards an Understanding of Chinese Law, Its Nature and Developments
    By Jianfu Chen

    Each of these is dealt with in a separate chapter. After the analysis of these substantial topics, certain conclusions are drawn, which attempt to define the nature of Chinese law and its developments in present-day China.