| Law and Politics in Modern China: Under the Law, the Law, and Above the Law Contributor(s): Gu, Sharron (Author) |
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ISBN: 1604976047 ISBN-13: 9781604976045 Publisher: Cambria Press OUR PRICE: $118.74 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice - History | Asia - China - Law | Legal History |
| Dewey: 349.51 |
| LCCN: 2009000875 |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6" W x 9" (1.75 lbs) 428 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is an original interdisciplinary study of Chinese law, its language, and political institution. Evolving within a complex literary framework over thousands of years, Chinese language has lost its conceptual distinctiveness to its multilevel and overlapping meanings and connotations. Chinese law has become inflated with contrary rulings and exceptions. This mass of rules requires an extra-lingual (legal) authority to redefine boundaries and specify applications. This book follows and continues the author's, The Boundaries of Meaning and the Formation of Law (McGill University Press) by illustrating how language shapes the formation, application, and administration of law in various cultural environments. Law and Politics in Modern China is an important book for those interested in Chinese history, culture, law, and politics. It also provides refreshing insights about the way that law continues to function after its language matures and creates contradictions and loopholes within its system of rules--one of the most important issues facing Western legal administration in the immediate future. |