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Ideological Conflict and the Rule of Law in Contemporary China

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Ideological Conflict and the Rule of Law in Contemporary China Synopsis

This book studies ideological divisions within Chinese legal academia and their relationship to arguments about the rule of law. The book describes argumentative strategies used by Chinese legal scholars to legitimize and subvert China's state-sanctioned ideology. It also examines Chinese efforts to invent new, alternative rule of law conceptions. In addition to this descriptive project, the book advances a more general argument about the rule of law phenomenon, insisting that many arguments about the rule of law are better understood in terms of their intended and actual effects rather than as analytic propositions or descriptive statements. To illustrate this argument, the book demonstrates that various paradoxical, contradictory and otherwise implausible arguments about the rule of law play an important role in Chinese debates about the rule of law. Paradoxical statements about the rule of law, in particular, can be useful for an ideological project.

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ISBN: 9781316506189
Publication date: 17th October 2016
Author: Samuli The Chinese University of Hong Kong Seppänen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 230 pages
Series: Law in Context
Genres: Jurisprudence and general issues
Law
International law
Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law
Legal systems: general
Constitutional and administrative law: general
Public international law
Private international law and conflict of laws
Law: study and revision guides
Systems of law