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Record Nr.

UNISA996201854403316

Titolo

East Asian law : universal norms and local cultures / / edited by Arthur Rosett, Lucie Cheng and Margaret Y.K. Woo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-43179-1

1-134-43180-5

0-367-02692-9

1-280-04923-5

0-203-36184-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

x, 244 p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

RosettArthur I. <1934->

ChengLucie

WooMargaret Y. K

Disciplina

349.5

Soggetti

Law - East Asia

Asia Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

This work 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. The trend towards convergence arises in part from 'globalisation', from 'rule of law programs' promulgated by institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the Asian Development Bank, and from widespread migration in the region, whilst the opposing trend arises in part from moves to resist such 'globalisation'. This book explores a wide range of issues related to this key problem, covering China in particular, where resolving differences in conceptions about the rule of law is a key issue as China begins to integrate itself into the World Trade Organisation regime.