1st Edition

China's Legal Reforms and Their Political Limits

By Ingrid Hooghe, Eduard B. Vermeer Copyright 2002
    188 Pages
    by Routledge

    188 Pages
    by Routledge

    Presents new insights into recent changes in China's legal framework in areas crucial to the modernisation process. Topics include law reform to accommodate foreign interests and convert China to a market economy, the judicial system and its treatment of human rights issues, the introduction of non-tariff barriers for foreign companies, and the current privatisation process.

    Chapter 1 Central and Local Law-Making, Yuwen Li, Jan-Michiel Otto; Chapter 2 Administrative Law-Making in the People’s Republic of China, Jean-Pierre Cabestan; Chapter 3 To Have One’s Cake and Eat It? Human Rights in Chinese Culture, Geor Hintzen; Chapter 4 A Criminal Justice System for a New Millennium?, Jianfu Chen; Chapter 5 Development of the Shareholding Cooperative System and Property Rights in China, Eduard B. Vermeer; Chapter 6 Law as Instrument, Jan Holthuis;

    Biography

    Eduard B. Vermeer, Ingrid d’Hooghe