Power versus Law in Modern China (eBook)

Cities, Courts, and the Communist Party

Qiang Fang, Xiaobing Li (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
286 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-7395-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Today 700 million Chinese citizens -- more than fifty-four percent of the population -- live in cities. The mass migration of rural populations to urban centers increased rapidly following economic reforms of the 1990s, and serious problems such as overcrowding, lack of health services, and substandard housing have arisen in these areas since. China's urban citizens have taken to the courts for redress and fought battles over failed urban renewal projects, denial of civil rights, corruption, and abuse of power.In Power versus Law in Modern China, Qiang Fang and Xiaobing Li examine four important legal cases that took place from 1995 to 2013 in the major cities of Wuhan, Xuzhou, Shanghai, and Chongqing. In these cases, citizens protested demolition of property, as well as corruption among city officials, developers, and landlords; but were repeatedly denied protection or compensation from the courts. Fang and Li explore how new interest groups comprised of entrepreneurs and Chinese graduates of Western universities have collaborated with the CCP-controlled local governments to create new power bases in cities. Drawing on newly available official sources, private collections, and interviews with Chinese administrators, judges, litigants, petitioners, and legal experts, this interdisciplinary analysis reveals the powerful and privileged will most likely continue to exploit the legal asymmetry that exists between the courts and citizens.

Autor

lt;P>Qiang Fang is professor of East Asian history at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. He is the author of Chinese Complaint Systems: Natural Resistance and coeditor of Modern Chinese Legal Reform: New Perspectives. He is also the current president of Chinese Historians in the United States (CHUS). Xiaobing Li is professor of history and director of the Western Pacific Institute at the University of Central Oklahoma. He is the author or coeditor of several books, including Modern Chinese Legal Reform: New Perspectives and A History of the Modern Chinese Army.

Inhalt

Introduction: Power versus Law in Chinese HistoryUrban War at the Yangzi RiverWaitan Garden: Law, Law Enforcement, and LawyersWuhan's Showdown at the Supreme CourtXuzhou: A Teacher versus the Powerful GovernmentProfessor Wang's Costly Battle against Local PowerShanghai and Chongqing: The Winner, the Loser, and the PrisonersThe Legal Asymmetry

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Asia in the New Millennium
• Reihe/Serie: Asia in the New Millennium
• Reihe/Serie: Asia in the New Millennium
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Bo Xilair • Chen Liangyu • communist government • conflict studies • democratic transitions • Democratization • Human Rights • Judicial Activism • Legal History • legay asymmetry • power imbalance • Professor Wang Peirong • Rule of Law • The Rule of Law • Wuhan Waitan Garden
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-7395-7 / 0813173957
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-7395-5 / 9780813173955