Building Constitutionalism in China

Building Constitutionalism in China represents the most systemic exploration of constitutionalism in China to appear in English in the last twenty years.  It explores how notions of constitutionalism appear to be impacting Chinese society in a wide variety of areas, including not simply juridical aspects such as legal practice, judicial decisionmaking, and legal scholarship and education; but also in possibly more far reach political and social aspects such as political consciousness and social resistance, mobilization and empowerment. Its chapters draw from a wide range of perspectives, and include historical analyses, jurisprudential analyses, ethnographic studies, and comparative analyses by scholars writing from both Chinese and Anglo-European perspectives.