This volume unpacks the relationship between constitutionalism and judicial power in China. It explores how court behaviour intersects with affects and is affected by China's evolving notions of constitutionalism. INDICE: Introduction: Exploring for Constitutionalism in 21st Century China; S.Balme & M.W.Dowdle PART I: CONSTITUTIONALISM AS ENVISIONING THE STATE 'Judicial Politics' as State-Building; Z.Suli Of Constitutions and Constitutionalism: Trying to Build a New Political Order in China, 1908-1949; X.Xiao-Planes Epistrophy: Chinese Constitutionalism and the 1950s; G.D.Tiffert Middle IncomeBlues: The East Asian Model and Implications for Constitutional Development in China; R.P.Peerenboom PART II: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A 'POLITICAL JURISPRUDENCE' China's Constitutional Research and Teaching: A State of the Art; T.Zhiwei Western Constitutional Ideas and Constitutional Discourse in China, 1978-2005; Y.Xingzhong 'To Take the Law as the Public': The Diversification of Society and Legal Discourse in Contemporary China; J.Weidong PART III: TRANSMITTING CONSTITUTIONALISM: 'JUDICIAL POWER' AND THE JUSTICE SYSTEM Administrative Law as aMechanism for Political Control in Contemporary China; H.Xin Access to Justice and Constitutionalism in China; F.Hualing Ordinary Justice and Popular Constitutionalism in China; S.Balme Beyond 'Judicial Power': Courts and Constitutionalism in Modern China; M.W.Dowdle PART IV: TOWARDS A POPULAR CONSTITUTIONALISM Citizens Engage the Constitution: The Sun Zhigang Incident and Constitutional Review Proposals in the People's Republic of China; K.J.Hand Rights Activismin China: The Case of Lawyer Gao Zhisheng; E.Pils Epilogue: The Past as Preface: Constitutionalism in the Late Ming Virtual Constitutionalism in the Late Ming Dynasty; P.Will
- ISBN: 978-0-230-60032-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha Publicación: 21/05/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés