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Power versus Law in Modern China
Cities, Courts, and the Communist Party
In Power versus Law in Modern China, Qiang Fang and Xiaobing Li examine four important legal cases that took place from 1995 to 2013 in the major cities of Wuhan, Xuzhou, Shanghai, and Chongqing. In these cases, citizens protested demolition of property, as well as corruption among city officials, developers, and landlords; but were repeatedly denied protection or compensation from the courts. Fang and Li explore how new interest groups comprised of entrepreneurs and Chinese graduates of Western universities have collaborated with the CCP-controlled local governments to create new power bases in cities. Drawing on newly available official sources, private collections, and interviews with Chinese administrators, judges, litigants, petitioners, and legal experts, this interdisciplinary analysis reveals the powerful and privileged will most likely continue to exploit the legal asymmetry that exists between the courts and citizens.
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"This work is a unique interdisciplinary scholarship in nature and can conveniently serve as such for the research in contemporary China in the fields of history, Chinese study, legal study, economics, political science, as well as sociology. While Western scholarship on China's economic reforms focus more on government policy-making, developmental process, or/and consequential achievements, very few pay close attention to the inner circle commotion and uproar often demanding legal reforms and political restructure inside China."—Pingchao Zhu, author of The Americans and Chinese at the Korean War Cease-fire Negotiations, 1950–1953
"This is an insightful look into the lives of ordinary Chinese as they sought legal means to retain the power of the Communist Party to effect rapid urbanization and its accompanying improvement in living conditions. A well-written, well-documented work"—Choice
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Other Titles by Qiang Fang
Modern Chinese Legal Reform
Other Titles by Xiaobing Li
Building Ho's Army
Voices from the Korean War
Modern Chinese Legal Reform
Other Titles from Asia in the New Millennium
Challenges to Chinese Foreign Policy
The Soldier Image and State-Building in Modern China, 1924-1945
Japan after 3/11
Other Titles in LAW / International
Foreign Seizures
Keeping Faith with Human Rights
Turkey and the European Union