Resolving Land Disputes in East Asia: Exploring the Limits of Law

Abstract

1. Resolving land disputes in East Asia: exploring the limits of law John Gillespie and Hualing Fu Part I. Theorizing Land Disputes in Socialist Asia: 2. Property rights, commodification, and land disputes in contemporary Socialist Asia Frank Upham Part II. China Case Studies: 3. Legal and institutional analysis of land expropriation in China Lei Chan 4. The judicial role in land-taking cases Jie Cheng 5. Contending conceptions of ownership and property in urbanizing China Eva Pils 6. What does Wukan offer? Land-taking, law, and dispute resolution Hualing Fu 7. Protest-supported housing demolition litigation and social change in China Xin He 8. Courts and political stability: mediating rural land disputes Hau Shao and Susan Whiting 9. Power and rule by law in rural China: state-initiated mediation in land disputes Changdon Zhang and Christopher Heurlin Part III. Vietnam Case Studies: 10. An historical overview of Vietnamese land law and dispute resolution Toan Le and Nguyen Hung Quang 11. Narrating law disputes in three Vietnamese communities John Gillespie Part IV. Taiwan Case Studies: 12. An overview of Taiwanese land law and dispute resolution Po-Fang Tsai and Duan Lin 13. Customary law and modern society: land disputes of Jisigongye (ancestral worship property) in Taiwan Duan Lin and Po-Fang Tsai Part V. Hong Kong Case Studies: 14. An overview of Hong Kong land law and dispute resolution Say H. Goo 15. The small house policy and Tso and Tong land: finding the interface between State and customary land in Hong Kong Say H. Goo 16. Flexibly applying the law to regulate illegal buildings in Hong Kong Alice Lee.