| I. Introductory Reflections |
| 25 |
The Nuptials Between Justice and Law in the Philosophy
of John Rawls:
Its Impact in Contemporary Political Philosophy |
Arnaldo M. A. Gonçalves |
| 43 |
Republic and Autocracy:
A Genetic Differentiating of the Cultural Crypto-genes between Ancient Rome and China |
Michael C. Mi |
| 77 |
A Comparison of Chinese and Western Law Culture:
The Evolution of Chinese Administrative Law |
Xu Jinglin |
| 91 |
The Rule of Law and the Role of Law in the Chinese Context |
Ignazio Castellucci |
| II. Chinese Culture and the Rule of Law |
| 109 |
The Interplay of the Chinese Communist Party
with the Chinese Law:
Crippling Efforts Towards the Rule of Law |
Zou Keyuan |
| 127 |
The Minority Question Reconsidered:
Law and Development in Cross-Cultural Comparison of America and China |
Matthew S. Erie |
| 157 |
Chinese Culture and the Rule of Law in China |
Zhang Haiting |
| 173 |
Inveterate China: Law and Symbolism |
Jonas Grimheden |
| III. Cultures Interplay in the Rule of Law |
| 201 |
Sir George Thomas Staunton and the Translation
of the Qing Legal Code |
Glenn Timmermans |
| 221 |
Civil Codification, Foreign Influence and “Local Conditions” in China: Towards China's Own Civil Code? |
Chen Jianfu |
| 251 |
Images of Law in Chinese Crime Fiction |
Isabel M. S. C. Morais |
| 277 |
“Slavery as Practised by the Chinese”:
Observations of Western Missionaries, 1849-1926 |
Johanna Sirera Ransmeier |
| IV. Changes in China of the Rule of Law |
| 295 |
Shifts in the Culture of a Constitution:
Closing the Gap and Re-drawing the Map |
Anne Carver |
| 311 |
The Rule of Law in China |
Wang Jiangyu |
| 351 |
Modern Courts and Judges in Fengtian Province (1907-1928) |
Zhang Qin |
| 371 |
Chinese Law Past and Present Potential of a Legacy? |
Karin Buhmann |
| V. The Rule of Law in Today's China |
| 405 |
Religion in Post Mao China Legalism and Religious Management |
Beatrice Leung |
| 427 |
China's Constitutionalism and Its Recent Developments in China and Taiwan |
Jean-Pierre Cabestan |
| 455 |
WTO Implementation and the Rule of Law:
Government Procurement in China |
Bill K. P. Chou |
| 477 |
Index |
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| 487 |
Acknowledgments |
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