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Western Scholarship On Chinese Law: Past Accomplishments And Present Challenges, Stanley Lubman
Western Scholarship On Chinese Law: Past Accomplishments And Present Challenges, Stanley Lubman
Stanley Lubman
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Studying Contemporary Chinese Law: Limits, Possibilities And Strategy, Stanley Lubman
Studying Contemporary Chinese Law: Limits, Possibilities And Strategy, Stanley Lubman
Stanley Lubman
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The Study Of Chinese Law In The United States: Reflections On The Past And Concerns About The Future, Stanley Lubman
The Study Of Chinese Law In The United States: Reflections On The Past And Concerns About The Future, Stanley Lubman
Stanley Lubman
I first survey the development and current state of the field by reviewing American scholarship on some major areas of Chinese law from those early days up to the present. Then, against this background, I comment on the current scene and address the challenges that Chinese law continues to present to Western attempts at understanding China.
Bird In A Cage: Chinese Law Reform After Twenty Years, Stanley Lubman
Bird In A Cage: Chinese Law Reform After Twenty Years, Stanley Lubman
Stanley Lubman
When I wrote in 1979, it was easy to summarize the state of Chinese legal institutions because they were so sparse. Although a judicial system had been created on the Soviet model in the 1950s, it had been politicized by the end of that decade after a brief period of liberalization, and then further wrecked by the Cultural Revolution. A new period of institution-building began in 1979; reconstruction of the courts began and the law schools, closed for a decade, reopened. Most fundamentally, the policies of the Chinese leadership seemed to promise, as I noted then, "attempts to conceptualize and …