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• Title:China's legal soul : the modern Chinese legal identity in historical context / John W. Head.
  
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• Author/Creator:Head, John W. (John Warren), 1953-
  
• Published/Created:Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, ©2009.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KNQ120 .H43 2009 (LC)
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Law--China--History.
  Law--China--Philosophy.
  Rule of law--China--History.
  Law and ethics--China.
  Law reform--China.
  
• Description:xxviii, 234 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-226) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781594606366 (alk. paper)
  1594606366 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Ch. I. Dynastic China's Legal Development
  A. Highlights and Patterns
  B. Confucianism and Legalism
  C. Law Codes in Dynastic China
  D. Key Themes in Dynastic Chinese Law
  Ch. II. Modern China's Legal Development
  A. Republic of China (1911-1949)
  B. PRC in Mao Zedong's Grip (1949-1978)
  C. PRC in Reform Mode (1979-Present)
  D. Discontinuities and Disconnections in Contemporary Chinese Law
  Ch. III. Rule of Law in China - Carefully Crossing the River
  A. Preliminary Definitions and Distinctions: Fazhi, Renzhi, and Instrumentalism
  B. Three Questions
  C. Thick and Thin Versions of a Rule of Law
  Appendix to Ch. III. Sampling of Rule-of-Law Definitions
  Ch. IV. China's Legal Ethic Today - Searching for a Modern Correlative to Imperial Confucianism
  A. Preliminary Observations
  B. Where to Find the Central Legal Ethic - A Survey of Possibilities
  C. Materialist-Oriented, Legitimate, Extroverted, China-Appropriate Restorative Progressivism (MOLECARP)
  Contemporary Chinese Law
  Law Journal Articles
  Dynastic Chinese Law.