The repeal of Qi Yuling v. Chen Xiaoqi in 2008 seemed to bring an offcial end to China's
judicialization of its constitution. The application of the Chinese constitution has since been …

The abolition of the judicial interpretation issued by the Supreme People's Court of the
People's Republic of China in Qi Yuling's case marks the end of the trend of developing a …

One of the great current debates in Chinese constitutional law is the role of constitutional
review within the Chinese legal-political system. This paper looks at the recent work of …

A general perception among Chinese constitutional law scholars exists that constitutional
review as institution and mechanism is an integral part of the constitutional arrangement …

Communist support for constitutional government turned out to be an expedient strategy
once the Party seized power in 1949. The People's Republic of China promulgated robust …

It is conventional wisdom that China's Constitution is unenforceable and plays little role in
China's legal system, other than as a symbolic document. This view rests on the fact that the …

Shortly after assuming leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the fall of 2002,
Hu Jintao proclaimed that China's “broad masses” should view the Constitution as a “legal …

Translator's Note: The subject of this article is the so-called" first constitutional case" in
China. The Qi Yuling case is, in a sense, the very first time since the foundation of the …

A general perception exists that constitutional review is not a part of modem Chinese
jurisprudence. That view is mistaken. The aim of this essay is to show that, while substantial …

In his Letter to the Editors (hereinafter Jiang's Letter), Professor Zhaoxin Jiang replied to,
inter alia, my Letter to the Editors,“Naming and (Mis) Informing in Academic Publications,” …