| Description |
xii, 396 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
The making of modern freedom |
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Making of modern freedom.
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| Contents |
Introduction / William C. Kirby -- 1. The Moral Autonomy of the Individual in Confucian Tradition / Irene Bloom -- 2. Chinese Law and Liberty in Comparative Historical Perspective / William C. Jones -- 3. Economic Freedom in Late Imperial China / Madeleine Zelin -- 4. Rights, Freedoms, and Customs in the Making of Chinese Civil Law, 1900-1936 / Jerome Bourgon -- 5. The Chinese Part-State under Dictatorship and Democracy on the Mainland and on Taiwan / William C. Kirby -- 6. Worker's Patrols in the Chinese Revolution: A Case of Institutional Inversion / Elizabeth J. Perry -- 7. Discourses of Dissent in Post-Imperial China / Wen-hsin Yeh -- 8. The Stalinization of the People's Republic of China / Arlen Meliksetov and Alexander Pantsov -- 9. Have You Eaten? Have You Divorced? Debating the Meaning of Freedom in Marriage in China / William P. Alford and Yuanyuan Shen -- 10. Realms of Freedom in Post-Mao China / Jean C. Or |
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11. Worship, Teachings, and State Power in China and Taiwan / Robert P. Weller |
| Summary |
"This volume explores a variety of issues surrounding questions of human rights and freedom in China." "The chapters in this volume suggest that one can speak of very significant realms of freedom, with or without the protection of law, in the personal, social, and economic lives of people in china before the twentieth century. This was recognized, and partly codified, in the early twentieth century, when legal experts sought to establish a republic of laws and limits. The process of legal reform however, would be placed firmly in the service of strengthening the post-imperial Chinese nation-state. The rule of the Guomindang and then the Communist Party would result in an ever-increasing level of state control, culminating after 1949 in a despotism that was felt more widely and deeply than any in Chinese history. Yet the last decades of the twentieth century and the first years of our own would witness a slow, steady, but unmistakable reassertion of realms of personal and communal autonomy, accompanied by experiments in electoral democracy on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, that show, even in an era of strong states, at least the prospect of institutionalized freedoms of a kind that J. H. Hexter, too, might have recognized and applauded."--BOOK JACKET.à |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-381) and index |
| Subject |
Human rights -- China.
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Social control -- China.
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Liberty.
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024153
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| Author |
Kirby, William C.
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| LC no. |
2003009924 |
| ISBN |
0804748780 cloth alkaline paper |
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