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Professionals are a growing group in China and increasingly make
their presence felt in governance and civil society. At the same
time, however, professionals in the West are under increasing
pressure from commercialism or scepticism about their ability to
rise above self-interest. This book focuses on professionals in
China and asks whether developing countries have a fateful choice:
to embrace Western models of professional organization as they now
exist, or to set off on an independent path, adapting elements of
Western practices to their own historical and cultural situation.
In doing so, the authors in this volume discuss a wealth of issues,
including: the historic antecedents of modern Chinese
professionalism; the implications of professionalism as an import
in China; the impact of socialism, the developmental state and
rampant commercialism on the professions in China; and the
feasibility of liberal professions in an illiberal state. To
conclude, the book considers whether there might be an emerging
professionalism with Chinese characteristics, and how this might
have an impact on the professions elsewhere. Prospects for the
Professions in China will be of interest to students and scholars
of Chinese Studies, law, sociology, medical studies and cultural
studies.
Professionals are a growing group in China and increasingly make
their presence felt in governance and civil society. At the same
time, however, professionals in the West are under increasing
pressure from commercialism or scepticism about their ability to
rise above self-interest. This book focuses on professionals in
China and asks whether developing countries have a fateful choice:
to embrace Western models of professional organization as they now
exist, or to set off on an independent path, adapting elements of
Western practices to their own historical and cultural situation.
In doing so, the authors in this volume discuss a wealth of issues,
including: the historic antecedents of modern Chinese
professionalism; the implications of professionalism as an import
in China; the impact of socialism, the developmental state and
rampant commercialism on the professions in China; and the
feasibility of liberal professions in an illiberal state. To
conclude, the book considers whether there might be an emerging
professionalism with Chinese characteristics, and how this might
have an impact on the professions elsewhere. Prospects for the
Professions in China will be of interest to students and scholars
of Chinese Studies, law, sociology, medical studies and cultural
studies.
Lon Fuller coined the term "eunomics" for "the study of good order
and workable social arrangements." The essays in this
volume--representing most of the work of his mature years--are his
"exercises in eunomics." They are studies of the principal forms of
legal order, including contract, adjudication, mediation,
legislation, and administration. In addition, the volume includes
several essays on legal education and the ethics of lawyering.
Fuller thought of lawyers as "architects of social structure," that
is, creators and managers of the various forms of legal order.
These responsibilities require close attention to problems of
institutional design, in which the concern is with ends as well as
means. Accordingly, Fuller believed that legal education should
shift from the analysis of appellate court cases to a
problem-solving orientation, attending to the conditions for
"orderly, fair, and decent" governance. In a lecture on freedom
published for the first time in this edition, Fuller develops the
idea that the forms of legal order are the diverse vehicles by
which freedom is effectively exercised in society. Lon Fuller
taught contracts and jurisprudence at the Harvard Law School from
1939 to 1972, where he was Carter Professor of General
Jurisprudence. His writings, such as "The Case of the Speluncean
Explorers," are classics of the legal literature.
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