Justice: The China Experience

Cambridge University Press, 7/27/2017
EAN 9781107190429, ISBN10: 1107190428

Hardcover, 410 pages, 24.1 x 16.5 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

Claims about a pursuit of justice weave through all periods of China's modern history. But what do authorities mean when they refer to 'justice' and do Chinese citizens interpret justice in the same way as their leaders? This book explores how certain ideas about justice have come to be dominant in Chinese polity and society, and how some conceptions of justice have been rendered more powerful and legitimate than others. This book's focus on 'how' justice works incorporates a concern about the processes that lead to the making, un-making and re-making of distinct conceptions of justice. Investigating the processes and frameworks through which certain ideas about justice have come to the political and social forefront in China today, this innovative work explains how these ideas are articulated through spoken performances and written expression by both the party-state and its citizenry.

Part I. Constructing the Idea of Justice
Traditional and Contemporary Perspectives
1. The expression of justice in China Flora Sapio, Susan Trevaskes, Sarah Biddulph and Elisa Nesossi
2. State, society and the justice debate in contemporary China Joshua Rosenzweig
3. High justice vs low justice
the legacy of confucian and legalist notions of justice Delia Lin
4. Rawls rejected, ignored, and radicalized
debating procedural justice in China Samuli Seppänen
Part II. The Performance of State Justice
5. Weaponising the rule of law in China Susan Trevaskes
6. Wrongful conviction
the useful injustice? Elisa Nesossi
7. 'Rich Sister' Wu Ying, judicial drama and justice Flora Sapio
Part III. Expressing Justice in the Public Arena
8. Justice in the PRC
how the Chinese Communist Party has struggled with managing public opinion and the administration of criminal justice in the internet age Ira Belkin
9. Doing justice
traditional and liberal conceptions of political morality in contemporary Chinese advocacy initiatives Eva Pils
10. Perceived justice of migrant workers in China Xin He, Lungang Wang and Yang Su
Part IV. Justice in Action and Law
11. In search of justice
China's elusive civil litigation reforms Margaret Woo
12. Justice at the margins
notions of justice in the punishment of prostitution Sarah Biddulph
13. Bringing politics back in
access to justice and labor dispute resolution in China Hualing Fu
14. Of ceremonial columns Flora Sapio, Susan Trevaskes, Sarah Biddulph and Elisa Nesossi.