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Title Building constitutionalism in China / edited by Stéphanie Balme and Michael W. Dowdle
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 325 pages)
Series The Sciences Po series in international relations and political economy
CERI series in international relations and political economy.
Contents Introduction : Exploring for constitutionalism in 21st century China / Stéphanie Balme and Michael W. Dowdle -- "Judicial politics" as state-building / Zhu Suli -- Of constitutions and constitutionalism : trying to build a new political order in China, 1908-1949 / Xiaohong Xiao-Planes -- Epistrophy : Chinese constitutionalism and the 1950s / Glenn D. Tiffert -- Middle income blues : the east Asian model and implications for constitutional development in China / Randall P. Peerenboom -- China's constitutional research and teaching : a state of the art / Tong Zhiwei -- Western constitutional ideas and constitutional discourse in China, 1978-2005 / Yu Xingzhong -- "To take the law as the public" : the diversification of society and legal discourse in contemporary China / Ji Weidong -- Administrative law as a mechanism for political control in contemporary China / He Xin -- Access to justice and constitutionalism in China / Fu Hualing -- Ordinary justice and popular constitutionalism in China / Stéphanie Balme -- Beyond "judicial power" : courts and constitutionalism in modern China / Michael W. Dowdle -- Citizens engage the constitution : the Sun Zhigang incident and constitutional review proposals in the People's Republic of China / Keith J. Hand -- Rights activism in China : the case of lawyer Gao Zhisheng / Eva Pils -- Epilogue : virtual constitutionalism in the late Ming dynasty / Pierre-Étienne Will
Summary This volume unpacks the relationship between constitutionalism and judicial power in China.€ It explores how court behavior intersects with - affects and is affected by - China's evolving notions of constitutionalism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-302) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Constitutional law -- China -- Congresses
Constitutional history -- China -- Congresses
Administrative law -- China -- Congresses
Constitution: government & the state.
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
Politics and Government.
Administrative law
Constitutional history
Constitutional law
China
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Balme, Stéphanie.
Dowdle, Michael W.
ISBN 9780230623958
0230623956
9780230600324
0230600328
1282674307
9781282674301
9781349369782
1349369780