Modern Chinese Rules of Order : Paradox of Law and Economics

by Killion, Ulric

• ISBN13: 9781600218378
• ISBN10: 1600218377
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-12
• Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc

Summary

The book addresses the issues of China's modern social order, as influenced by an evolving economic order and especially legal order. Ongoing Chinese modernisation is prompted by both domestic needs and WTO commitments, which includes both economic and legal reforms. Emphasis is placed on legal reforms, one of the most important areas of much needed reforms. The directional development of China's legal order has national, interregional and international implications, which affect the growth and prosperity of both China and the world's economy. A problem is an evolving inter-relationship between social order, economic order, and legal order, which can be described as either complementary or paradoxical. However, a paradoxical inter-relationship between these sources of order is problematic, because it effectively renders needed legal reforms that are increasingly more difficult to implement. This book explores both the complementary and paradoxical inter-relationship between these sources of order, the author proposes a "novel" and "viable" alternative for transplanting a more Western constitutional design in China.

Table of Contents

Preface

Ideologising Xiaokang

Social Order in Antiquity

The Socio-Econo-Legal Order

Sinicising the Bolshevik Revolution

Defining Pragmatic Neo-Liberalism

Liberalism and Marxism

Transplanting Law and Economics

Trade, Foreign Aid and Soft Power

China and the Western Threat

Political Economy of Legal Order

Culture and Historical Jurisprudence

Conclusion: Complementarity of Paradoxes

Index

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