Chinese Civil Justice, Past and Present

by Philip C.C. Huang

Book Overview

The culmination of twenty years of research, this essential book completes distinguished historian Philip C. C. Huang's pathbreaking trilogy on Chinese law and society from late imperial times to the present. Huang shows how, at the level of ideology and theory, traditional Chinese law has been rejected time and again in the past century by China's own lawmakers, first in the late Qing and the republic, then in the revolutionary and Maoist periods...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742567702
• ISBN13: 9780742567702
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"