Law as an Instrument: Sources of Chinese Law for Authoritarian Legality

by Shucheng Wang

How can the law be employed pragmatically to facilitate development and underpin illiberal principles? The case of contemporary China shows that the law plays an increasingly important role in the country's illiberal approach to both domestic and China-related global affairs, which has posed intellectual challenges in understanding it with reference to conventional, Western legal concepts and theories. This book provides a systematic exploration of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009152564
• ISBN13: 9781009152563
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"