The Limits of the Rule of Law in China

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Problem of Paradigms

1. Conceptions and Receptions of Legality: Understanding the Complexity of Law Reform in Modern China

2. Law, Law, What Law? Why Western Scholars of China Have Not Had More to Say about Its Law

3. Using the Past to Make a Case for the Rule of Law

4. Rule of Man and the Rule of Law in China: Punishing Provincial Governors during the Qing

5. Collective Responsibility in Qing Criminal Law

6. True Confessions? Chinese Confessions Then and Now

7. Law and Discretion in Contemporary Chinese Courts

8. Equality and Justice in Official and Popular Views about Civil Obligations: China and Taiwan

9. Language and Law: Sources of Systemic Vagueness and Ambiguous Authority in Chinese Statutory Language

10. The Future of Federalism in China

11. The Rule of Law Imposed from Outside: China's Foreign-Oriented Legal Regime since 1978

Epilogue: The Deep Roots of Resistance to Law Codes and Lawyers in China

Contributors

Index