Contemporary Chinese Law: Research Problems and Perspectives (Harvard Studies in East Asian Law)

Recently scholars have become increasingly aware that the study of Chinese law can provide new insight into the forces actually at work in Chinese society in different epochs. In an effort to encourage and facilitate the study of this subject, the thirteen essays of this volume deal with the methodology of studying the legal system of the People's Republic, describe the available research materials, and analyze the problems presented in making the materials of Chinese law intelligible to Western readers. They also review foreign works on Chinese law and explore the difficulties involved in translation and in comparing the Chinese system to our own and to that of the Soviet Union. Mr. Cohen's thoughtful introduction provides an excellent survey of the worldwide development of studies of Chinese law. It also delineates the nature of the essays that he and the eleven other scholars have contributed to the volume. Chinese Legal Publications: An Appraisal / Tao-tai Hsia -- Interviewing Chinese Refugees: Indispensable Aid To Legal Research On China / Jerome Alan Cohen -- The Use Of Survey Interviewing In Research On Communist Chinese Law / Victor Hao Li -- The Development Of Chinese International Law Terms And The Problem Of Their Translation Into English / Hungdah Chiu -- Japanese Influences On Communist Chinese Legal Language / Dan Fenno Henderson -- The Language Of Communist China's Criminal Law / David Finkelstein -- Problems Of Translating The Marriage Law / Marinus J. Meijer -- Methodological Problems In Studying Chinese Communist Civil Law / Stanley Lubman -- Crime Arid Punishment: China And The United States / Richard M. Pfeffer -- Chinese Attitudes Toward International Law And Our Own / Jerome Alan Cohen -- Some Characteristics Of Japanese Studies On Contemporary Chinese Law / Yasuhei Taniguchi -- Soviet Perspectives On Chinese Law / Harold J. Berman -- Soviet Sources On The Law Of The People's Republic Of China/ George Ginsburgs Edited By Jerome Alan Cohen. With Contributions By Harold J. Berman [and Others] Includes Bibliographies. Acknowledgments Contents Tables Abbreviations Introduction 1. Chinese Legal Publications: An Appraisal 2. Interviewing Chinese Refugees: Indispensable Aid to Legal Research on China 3. The Use of Survey Interviewing in Research on Communist Chinese Law 4. The Development of Chinese International Law Terms and the Problem of Their Translation into English 5. Japanese Influences on Communist Chinese Legal Language 6. The Language of Communist China’s Criminal Law 7. Problems of Translating the Marriage Law 8. Methodological Problems in Studying Chinese Communist “Civil Law” 9. Crime and Punishment: China and the United States 10. Chinese Attitudes Toward International Law – and Our Own 11. Some Characteristics of Japanese Studies on Contemporary Chinese Law 12. Soviet Perspectives on Chinese Law 13. Soviet Sources on the Law of the People’s Republic of China Glossary Chinese- and Japanese-Language Books Index Biographical note: CohenJerome Alan: Jerome Alan Cohen is a member of the Executive Committee of the East Asian Research Center at Harvard University and Professor of Law, Harvard Law School