Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society

by Neil J. Diamant

Book Overview

In Useful Bullshit Neil J. Diamant pulls back the curtain on early constitutional conversations between citizens and officials in the PRC. Scholars have argued that China, like the former USSR, promulgated constitutions to enhance its domestic and international legitimacy by opening up the constitution-making process to ordinary people, and by granting its citizens political and socioeconomic rights. But what did ordinary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501770160
• ISBN13: 9781501770166
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"