Trial of Modernity: Judicial Reform in Early Twentieth-Century China, 1901-1937

by Xiaoqun Xu

This is the first book in English on the Chinese judicial system and its operations in the Republican era, filling a large gap in the scholarship on modern China, Chinese law, Chinese legal history, and comparative law. It offers a richly-textured analysis of how judicial reform initiatives were envisioned and pursued by the central government from 1901 through 1937, how the various initiatives were, or failed to be, implemented at the provincial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804755868
• ISBN13: 9780804755863
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"