Company Law

Author: Zhu Yansheng et al.
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book first provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic concepts, origins, development, and overview of companies and company law. It then systematically elaborates on the fundamental principles and relevant regulations of Chinese company law in separate chapters. Based on the provisions of company law, it explains the establishment, organizational structure, and other aspects of the two types of companies stipulated by Chinese company law—Limited Liability Companies and Joint Stock Companies. After conducting a systematic study of the principles and practices of company law, the book addresses recent developments in China, such as the management of foreign company branches and the legal regulation of internal transactions within corporate groups. In the construction of China's socialist legal system, commercial legislation is the most dynamic and the most successful field. From the Foreign Investment Enterprises Law of 1979 to the Company Law of 1993 and the Trust Law of 2001, specialized legislation (laws or regulations) has been enacted in most commercial law areas, including companies, enterprises, securities, bills of exchange, insurance, maritime law, trusts, guarantees, futures, tendering and bidding, and auctions. Since commercial law directly reflects the requirements of the market economy, learning and mastering the theoretical knowledge of commercial law can directly serve market economic activities. As a result, commercial law has been highly valued in legal education and various forms of legal knowledge training, becoming a prominent highlight in legal studies. Commercial law research has also become one of the hot topics in legal theoretical studies. In recent years, the Law Department of Xiamen University has been dedicated to the development of civil and commercial law disciplines and courses, as well as textbook writing. It has organized the compilation of a series of civil and commercial law textbooks, including General Principles of Civil Law, Property Law, Debt Law, Intellectual Property Law, Marriage, Family, and Inheritance Law, and Commercial Law (Volume 1 and 2), achieving certain results. To further advance the theoretical teaching and research of commercial law, the Law Department of Xiamen University has collaborated with Fujian Provincial Institute of Political and Legal Administration for the first time, organizing some teachers engaged in civil and commercial law theoretical teaching and research to compile this series of commercial law books, aiming to make contributions in the teaching and research of commercial law. The original intention of compiling this series is to provide undergraduate law students with a relatively complete textbook and reference book on commercial law. Therefore, we particularly emphasize the need to focus on combining China's legislative and judicial practices, systematically elaborating on the basic concepts, fundamental knowledge, and core theories of various commercial laws, and as far as possible, incorporating new achievements in theoretical research. As a result, this series can serve as both a textbook for commercial law teaching and a reading material for general readers to understand and master commercial law or a specific area of commercial law.