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Power versus Law in Modern China - Cities, Courts, and the Communist Party (Hardcover)
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Power versus Law in Modern China - Cities, Courts, and the Communist Party (Hardcover)
Series: Asia in the New Millennium
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Today 700 million Chinese citizens -- more than fifty-four percent
of the population -- live in cities. The mass migration of rural
populations to urban centers increased rapidly following economic
reforms of the 1990s, and serious problems such as overcrowding,
lack of health services, and substandard housing have arisen in
these areas since. China's urban citizens have taken to the courts
for redress and fought battles over failed urban renewal projects,
denial of civil rights, corruption, and abuse of power.In Power
versus Law in Modern China, Qiang Fang and Xiaobing Li examine four
important legal cases that took place from 1995 to 2013 in the
major cities of Wuhan, Xuzhou, Shanghai, and Chongqing. In these
cases, citizens protested demolition of property, as well as
corruption among city officials, developers, and landlords; but
were repeatedly denied protection or compensation from the courts.
Fang and Li explore how new interest groups comprised of
entrepreneurs and Chinese graduates of Western universities have
collaborated with the CCP-controlled local governments to create
new power bases in cities. Drawing on newly available official
sources, private collections, and interviews with Chinese
administrators, judges, litigants, petitioners, and legal experts,
this interdisciplinary analysis reveals the powerful and privileged
will most likely continue to exploit the legal asymmetry that
exists between the courts and citizens.
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