Building Constitutionalism in China

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Exploring for Constitutionalism in 21st Century China....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
“Judicial Politics” as State-Building....Pages 23-36
Of Constitutions and Constitutionalism: Trying to Build a New Political Order in China, 1908–1949....Pages 37-57
Epistrophy: Chinese Constitutionalism and the 1950s....Pages 59-76
Middle Income Blues: The East Asian Model and Implications for Constitutional Development in China....Pages 77-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
China’s Constitutional Research and Teaching: A State of the Art....Pages 99-110
Western Constitutional Ideas and Constitutional Discourse in China, 1978–2005....Pages 111-124
“To Take the Law as the Public”: The Diversification of Society and Legal Discourse in Contemporary China....Pages 125-140
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
Administrative Law as a Mechanism for Political Control in Contemporary China....Pages 143-161
Access to Justice and Constitutionalism in China....Pages 163-178
Ordinary Justice and Popular Constitutionalism in China....Pages 179-197
Beyond “Judicial Power”: Courts and Constitutionalism in Modern China....Pages 199-218
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
Citizens Engage the Constitution: The Sun Zhigang Incident and Constitutional Review Proposals in the People’s Republic of China....Pages 221-242
Rights Activism in China: The Case of Lawyer Gao Zhisheng....Pages 243-260
Epilogue: Virtual Constitutionalism in the Late Ming Dynasty....Pages 261-273
Back Matter....Pages 274-325