Perhaps a transformation is taking place in the law of China

Author: Su Li
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: From a perspective of institutions, this book examines the development of Chinese legal studies over the past 25 years as an important part of the rule of law practice and institutional construction in the transforming China. It is a reflection and critique of law itself by the author as a legal scholar, expanding the research field of law. The book focuses on the overall pattern and basic trends of the development and transformation of legal studies, as well as the underlying academic institutional and social background that supports this pattern. Grounded in empirical and empirical research, the author treats some phenomena of contemporary Chinese legal studies as symptoms and attempts to diagnose the underlying institutional issues. Striving to find the transformation of knowledge types embedded in contemporary Chinese legal studies, the quantity and quality of academic outputs, academic translation, and changes in the mainstream ideological trends of law through the interplay of macro-perspective and micro-analysis; it analyzes a series of social factors that constrain and influence the development of law and legal scholars, including social changes, social expectations, academic traditions, and so on. The author also proposes a series of suggestions on the institutional construction of legal research. This is an empirical study on the current state of Chinese legal studies, as well as a theoretical work; it is both a sociological study of law and a sociological study of the sociology of legal research, which is currently the first of its kind in China.