Description |
1 online resource (255 pages) |
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1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) : illustrations |
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data file rda |
Contents |
1. Finding a role for law in Asian development / Lucie Cheng, Margaret Y.K. Woo and Arthur Rosett -- 2. Property rights and indigenous tradition among early twentieth-century Japanese firms / Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer -- 3. Markets, democracy and ethnicity / Amy L. Chua -- 4. Competing conceptions of 'rule of law' in China / Randall Peerenboom -- 5. Transnational labor, citizenship and the Taiwan state / Lucie Cheng -- 6. 'Us' and 'them' in Korean law : the creation, accommodation and exclusion of outsiders in South Korea / Chulwoo Lee -- 7. Internal migrants and the challenge of the 'floating population' in the PRC / Dorothy J. Solinger -- 8. The historical roots of stasis and change in Japanese legal education / Kahei Rokumoto -- 9. Of lawyers lost and found : searching for legal professionalism in the People's Republic of China / William P. Alford -- 10. Chinese courts and law reform in post-Mao China / Stanley Lubman. |
Summary |
This book explores the tension in East Asia between the trend towards a convergence of legal practices in the direction of a universal model and a reassertion of local cultural practices. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
Subject |
Law -- East Asia.
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LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
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Law. (OCoLC)fst00993678
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East Asia. (OCoLC)fst01243628
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Added Author |
Cheng, Lucie, editor.
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Rosett, Arthur I. (Arthur Irwin), 1934-2011, editor.
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Woo, Margaret Y. K., editor.
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Other Form: |
9780415297356 |
ISBN |
9780203361849 (electronic book) |
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0203361849 (electronic book) |
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9781134431809 (e-book) |
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0203378628 (OEB Format) |
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1134431805 |
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0415297354 |
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9780415297356 |
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