Abstract

AbstractThis paper analyses how the interaction of law andqing(情) shapes ordinary Chinese people’s legal consciousness. Ordinary Chinese people rely onqing, or the normal feelings, or attitudes of the public, to judge whether a particular law is just and how they should react to the law. By investigating Chinese leftover women’s legal consciousness regarding marriage and childbearing, this article has developed a theory to discuss Chinese people’s different forms of legal consciousness either when the law is in opposition toqingor when it is in alliance withqing.I argue that these variations of legal consciousness result from the dynamic relationship betweenqingand different types and levels of legality, including state law.

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