Building Constitutionalism in China

Abstract

Introduction: Exploring for Constitutionalism in 21st Century China S.Balme & M.W.Dowdle PART I: CONSTITUTIONALISM AS ENVISIONING THE STATE 'Judicial Politics' as State-Building Z.Suli Of Constitutions and Constitutionalism: Trying to Build a New Political Order in China, 1908-1949 X.Xiao-Planes Epistrophy: Chinese Constitutionalism and the 1950s G.D.Tiffert Middle Income Blues: The East Asian Model and Implications for Constitutional Development in China R.P.Peerenboom PART II: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A 'POLITICAL JURISPRUDENCE' China's Constitutional Research and Teaching: A State of the Art T.Zhiwei Western Constitutional Ideas and Constitutional Discourse in China, 1978-2005 Y.Xingzhong 'To Take the Law as the Public': The Diversification of Society and Legal Discourse in Contemporary China J.Weidong PART III: TRANSMITTING CONSTITUTIONALISM: 'JUDICIAL POWER' AND THE JUSTICE SYSTEM Administrative Law as a Mechanism for Political Control in Contemporary China H.Xin Access to Justice and Constitutionalism in China F.Hualing Ordinary Justice and Popular Constitutionalism in China S.Balme Beyond 'Judicial Power': Courts and Constitutionalism in Modern China M.W.Dowdle PART IV: TOWARDS A POPULAR CONSTITUTIONALISM Citizens Engage the Constitution: The Sun Zhigang Incident and Constitutional Review Proposals in the People's Republic of China K.J.Hand Rights Activism in China: The Case of Lawyer Gao Zhisheng E.Pils Epilogue: The Past as Preface: Constitutionalism in the Late Ming Virtual Constitutionalism in the Late Ming Dynasty P.Will