Economic development and mass urbanization have unleashed unprecedented levels of
land disputes in East Asia. In China and Vietnam especially, courts and other legal
institutions struggle to find lasting solutions. It is against this background of legal failure that
this book brings together leading scholars to understand how state agencies, land users and
land developers imaginatively engage with each other to resolve disputes. Drawing on
empirically rich case studies, contributors explore the limits of law and legal institutions in …

Property has been central to the historic growth of Hong Kong and Taiwan since the 1960s,
and of China and Vietnam beginning some two decades later. While the role of property in
the global shift to East Asia over the past half-century has been most commonly understood
in economic terms (ie real estate markets, urbanization and consumer classes) there are
other dimensions to property in East Asia's (re) emergence. Property also means justice,
piety and home, among other expressions of value and identity. Resolving Land Disputes in …