| Description |
1 online resource (255 pages) |
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1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. Finding a role for law in Asian development / Lucie Cheng, Margaret Y.K. Woo and Arthur Rosett -- 2. Property rights and indigenous tradition among early twentieth-century Japanese firms / Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer -- 3. Markets, democracy and ethnicity / Amy L. Chua -- 4. Competing conceptions of 'rule of law' in China / Randall Peerenboom -- 5. Transnational labor, citizenship and the Taiwan state / Lucie Cheng -- 6. 'Us' and 'them' in Korean law : the creation, accommodation and exclusion of outsiders in South Korea / Chulwoo Lee -- 7. Internal migrants and the challenge of the 'floating population' in the PRC / Dorothy J. Solinger -- 8. The historical roots of stasis and change in Japanese legal education / Kahei Rokumoto -- 9. Of lawyers lost and found : searching for legal professionalism in the People's Republic of China / William P. Alford -- 10. Chinese courts and law reform in post-Mao China / Stanley Lubman |
| Summary |
This book explores the tension in East Asia between the trend towards a convergence of legal practices in the direction of a universal model and a reassertion of local cultural practices |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Law -- East Asia
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86.10 history of law, law of different countries, areas and peoples.
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LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
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Law
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Development of law.
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Constitutional state.
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Civil society.
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Lawyers.
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Courts of law.
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Asia.
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Legal systems.
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East Asia
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China.
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Japan.
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South Korea.
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Taiwan.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cheng, Lucie, editor
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Rosett, Arthur I. (Arthur Irwin), 1934-2011, editor.
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Woo, Margaret Y. K., editor
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| ISBN |
9780203361849 |
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0203361849 |
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9781134431809 |
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1134431805 |
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9781134431793 |
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1134431791 |
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