Preface, by Philip A. Kuhn
Introduction: History Has no End (Pierre-Étienne Will)
List of Contributors
Part One: Tradition and Rebuilding
Chapter 1: Despotism, “Democratic China” and Nineteenth-Century European Authors (Pierre-Étienne Will)
Chapter 2: Seeds of Democracy in the Confucian Tradition? (Anne Cheng)
Part Two: Imperial Institutions
Chapter 3: Checking Abuses of Power under the Ming Dynasty (Pierre-Étienne Will)
Chapter 4: The Principle of Legality and Legal Rules in the Chinese Legal Tradition (Jérôme Bourgon)
Part Three: Transitions (1): the Late Empire and the Republic
Chapter 5: The Emergence of a Community of Jurists in the Late Imperial and Early Republican Periods (1740-1930) (Jérôme Bourgon)
Chapter 6: The Appropriation of the Concept of “Liberty” at the End of the Qing Dynasty: Beginning with the Interpretation of Kant by Liang Qichao (Joël Thoraval)
Chapter 7: The First Democratic Experiment in China (1908-1914): Chinese Tradition and Local Elite Practices (Xiaohong Xiao-Planes)
Chapter 8: Constitutions and Constitutionalism: Trying to Build a New Political Order (1908-1949) (Xiaohong Xiao-Planes)
Chapter 9: The Chinese Contribution to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Pierre-Étienne Will)
Part Four: Twentieth-Century Uses of the Democratic Idea
Chapter 10: Antitradition and Democracy in Early Twentieth-Century China: Modern Culture and the Crisis of the Nation-State (Yves Chevrier)
Chapter 11: Elusive Democracy (1915-1937) (Yves Chevrier)
Chapter 12: Servant, Bogeyman or Goddess: Democracy in the Discourses of Power and Dissidence in China (Michel Bonnin)
Part Five: Transitions (2): the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries
Chapter 13: Instituting the Rule of Law in China in the Context of Globalization (Mireille Delmas-Marty)
Chapter 14: Law and Society in Contemporary China (Stéphanie Balme)
Chapter 15: China’s Accession to the WTO and Legal Reform: Towards the Rule of Law via Internationalization Without Democracy? (Leïla Choukroune)
Chapter 16: The Renaissance of the Legal Profession in China (Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Li Qinglan, Sun Ping, Yves Dolais)
Chapter 17: Democracy Under One-Party Rule? On Village and Canton Elections in China (Gunter Schubert)
Chapter 18: The Democratic Experience and Election Culture on Taiwan (Fiorella Allio)
Conclusion: The Chinese Laboratory (Mireille Delmas-Marty)
Glossary-Index
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