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...-political philosophy in China. Suffice it to say that his analysis focusing on “the contestation of humaneness, justice, and personal freedom in the early Chinese effort to negotiate the relationships among the personal, the familial, and the political domains, under drastically different conceptions...

... belief of its chastity awards that precipitated and, in a way, legitimized chastity activism. The tension between social expectation and bureaucratic inefficiency turned the awarding of chaste-women honors into an issue of social justice. The widely perceived failure of the state to deliver chastity...

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... 2011 Sovereign Power and the Law in China: Zones of Exception in the Criminal Justice System . By Flora Sapio . Leiden : Brill , 2010 . China studies, volume 18. xiv, 369 pp. $179.00 (cloth). This extraordinary book is deeply inspiring, and full of dark, troubling insights. Perhaps...

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... the way the two aspects of the legal order are measured against different normative ideals: justice and legitimacy. A legal system must respond to both of these norms. We can get at this distinction, in its broadest terms, by noting the difference between two questions: What is the content of the law...

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...Weitseng Chen Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice . Edited by Neil J. Diamant , Stanley B. Lubman , and Kevin J. O'Brien . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2005 . viii , 256 pp. $52.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association...