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China's economic reforms have brought the country both major international clout and widespread domestic prosperity. At the same time, the reforms have led to significant social upheaval, particularly manifest in labour relations. Each year, several thousand disputes break out over working conditions, many of them violent, and the Chinese state has responded with both legal and political strategies. This book investigates how Chinese governments have used law, and other forms of regulation, to govern working conditions and combat labour disputes. Starting from the early years of the Republican period, the book traces the evolution of the law of work in modern China right up to the reforms of the present day. It considers the structure of Chinese work law, drawing on both Chinese and Western scholarship to provide new insights into its unique features and assess where the law is innovative and where it is stagnant and unresponsive. The authors explore the various legal and extra-legal techniques successive Chinese governments have adopted to enforce work law and the responses of firms, workers and organizations to these practices.

China's legal system has drawn ever more attention from the international community.It has been developing at a very significant pace since China carried out economic reform and instituted an \"open door\" policy in 1978.China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) has had a tremendous impact on the development and reform of China's legal.

Using a conceptual framework, this 2007 book examines the processes of legal reform in post-socialist countries such as China. Drawing on Bourdieu's concept of the 'field', the increasingly complex and contested processes of legal reform are analysed in relation to police powers. The impact of China's post-1978 legal reforms on police powers is examined through a detailed analysis of three administrative detention powers: detention for education of prostitutes; coercive drug rehabilitation; and re-education through labour. The debate surrounding the abolition in 1996 of detention for investigation (also known as shelter and investigation) is also considered. Despite over 20 years of legal reform, police powers remain poorly defined by law and subject to minimal legal constraint. They continue to be seriously and systematically abused. However, there has been both systematic and occasionally dramatic reform of these powers. This book considers the processes which have made these legal changes possible.

This book examines the law reforms of contemporary China in light of the Party-state’s ideological transformation and the political economy that shapes these reforms. This involves analysing three interrelated domains: law reform, power and wealth. The contributors to this volume employ a variety of perspectives and analytical techniques in their discussion of key themes including: commercial law reform and its governance of wealth and regulation of economic activity; the influence and authority of the Party-state over China’s economic activity; and the influence of wealth and the wealthy in economic governance and legal reform. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, this book presents analytical perspectives of new work, or new lines of thinking about the new wealth, power and law reforms of China. As such, critical boundaries are explored between legal and financial reforms and what these reforms signify about deeper ideological, economic, social and cultural transformations in China. The book concludes by asking whether there is a ‘China model’ of development which will produce a unique variety of capitalism and indigenous variant of rule of law, and examining the ‘winners and losers’ in the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy. Law, Wealth and Power in China will be of interest to students and academics of comparative law, Asian law, Chinese economics and politics, Chinese Studies, as well as professionals in investment banking, finance and government. John Garrick is a solicitor and senior research fellow at Macquarie University’s Graduate School of Management (MGSM). He is the author and co-editor of a wide range of scholarly publications including several well known Routledge books on power relations and has worked extensively in both legal practice and academia in Hong Kong, the Middle-East, North America and Australia. Introduction: Law reform in the People’s Republic: China’s quiet revolution? John Garrick PART I Power and law reform in the People’s Republic of China 1. Market reform: reflections on China’s economic system Jonathan Anderson 2. In Search of Wealth and Power Yingjie Guo 3. Politics, society and the legal system in contemporary China William J. Hurst 4. Power narratives and lessons f rom the Chinese Cultural Revolution Andrew Chan PART II The commercial law reforms 5. China’s civil and commercial law reforms Jianfu Chen 6. The regulation of foreign investment in China Hui Huang 7. China’s ‘dual-track’ legislation on business organizations and the effects of antimonopoly law Xianchu Zhang 8. China’s labour laws in transition Kay-Wah Chan 9. Secured financing in China Su Lin Han PART III Wealth and law reform: capitalism with Chinese characteristics? 10. Private property, wealth and law reform in China’s urban age Richard Hu 11. Women, enterprises and the state Minglu Chen 12. Wealth and loss in changing economic times: reforms in bankruptcy and consumer protection laws Vivienne Bath and Mary Ip 13. Where are China’s economic and legal reforms taking the People’s Republic: ‘democracy with Chinese characteristics’? Feng Lin PART IV Conclusions, dilemmas and challenges 14. Law, wealth and power in China: Conclusions Randall Peerenboom

\"With the Chinese government planning a comprehensive and detailed reform of regulatory law, the European experience is likely to contribute significantly. This timely book analyses comparative Chinese and EU regulatory reform from a law and economics perspective.\"-- Provided by publisher.

InThe Limits of the Rule of Law in China,fourteen authors from different academic disciplines reflect on questions that have troubled Chinese and Western scholars of jurisprudence since classical times. Using data from the early 19th century through the contemporary period, they analyze how tension between formal laws and discretionary judgment is discussed and manifested in the Chinese context. The contributions cover a wide range of topics, from interpreting the rationale for and legacy of Qing practices of collective punishment, confession at trial, and bureaucratic supervision to assessing the political and cultural forces that continue to limit the authority of formal legal institutions in the People's Republic of China.