Beginning in the 1990s, a number of elite Chinese intellectuals developed new critiques of
liberalism. Within the orbit of Marxism, a group often called the “new left” mainly …

In 1974, a small group of young intellectuals, the Li Yizhe group, circulated their dissident
manifesto,'On Socialist Democracy and the Legal System,'a probing critique of the leftist …

This chapter begins by surveying the rejection of the very idea of law as a Marxist-Maoist
doctrine, and the extremely precarious position of laws, legal institutions, and individuals …

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China remains the world's
only major communist society. Will China's regime go the way of its Soviet counterpart, or …

Academic, political, and civil society elites have developed a distinct pattern of
argumentation and analysis when discussing the rule of law in China. The discussion …

This text discusses the Chinese Legalists, an ancient school of Chinese philosophy which
flourished during the Period of the Hundred Contending Schools (6th-3rd century BCE) The …

Historically, the roots of the contemporary Chinese legal system are deeply embedded in the
Soviet Union model of the socialist legal system (see Butler 1983). Even today, the Soviet …

The Fourth Plenum of the 18th Party Congress has been characterized as a historical event
at which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officially endorsed the rule of law (yifa …

This article argues that the Chinese Communist Party has adopted a unique understanding
of law. Unlike the liberal view and the unwritten constitution view, which generally consider …

The Chinese Communist Party has largely observed a technical, de jure separation between
itself and the state, including the legal system--even while de facto controlling the state …