Roads Lead to the City: The Rule of Law in Transforming China

Author: Su Li
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: "All roads lead to the city," the author uses this line from Verlaine as a metaphor for contemporary Chinese social change, as well as the background and fundamental constraints of contemporary Chinese rule of law practice. With an open academic perspective, integrating multidisciplinary knowledge, the author approaches the issue from a institutional angle, focusing on some legal theories and practices in contemporary China during an unprecedented period of social transformation. Examples include the relationship between the central and local governments and its institutionalization, the role of custom in legislation, the position of the Supreme Court in the constitutional structure, judicial selection, and other issues of judicial reform. The author attempts to naturally demonstrate and highlight unique Chinese issues in this rule of law practice through detailed theoretical discussions and empirical analysis, such as rule of law in a great power, post-establishment rule of law, transformative rule of law, and the dilemmas embedded in these issues. This book can be said to concentrate on showcasing the author's unique analytical approach and perspectives on the practice of rule of law in contemporary transformative Chinese society. The fundamental focus of the book is theoretical, but the attached issues are specific. It seeks to provide a social scientific explanation and empirical research on contemporary Chinese rule of law practice, aiming to supplement normative legal research.