How Long to Read Chinese Civil Justice, Past and Present

How Long Does it Take to Read Chinese Civil Justice, Past and Present?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read Chinese Civil Justice, Past and Present by Philip C. Huang

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The culmination of twenty years of research, this essential book completes distinguished historian Philip C. C. Huang's pathbreaking trilogy on Chinese law and society from late imperial times to the present. Huang shows how, at the level of ideology and theory, traditional Chinese law has been rejected time and again in the past century by China's own lawmakers, first in the late Qing and the republic, then in the revolutionary and Maoist periods of the People's Republic, and finally again in the current reform era. Considering legal theory alone, modern Chinese law can only be Western law, and past Chinese law--traditional or Maoist--can have no role under the leadership's current preoccupations with modernization and marketization. But what has actually happened historically at the level of judicial practice and the daily lives of common people? In exploring this central question, Huang draws on a rich array of court records and field interviews to illustrate the surprising strength of traditional Chinese civil justice. Albeit much altered, its legacy can be traced in informal and semiformal community justice (e.g., societal and cadres mediation), as well as in multiple spheres of court-administered formal civil justice, including property rights, inheritance and old-age maintenance, and debt obligations. He also identifies the influence of Maoist justice, especially its divorce and civil court mediation practices. Finally, despite the reform era's massive importation of Western laws, legal reasoning employed in judicial practice has shown remarkable continuity, with major implications for China's future legal system.

How long is Chinese Civil Justice, Past and Present?

Chinese Civil Justice, Past and Present by Philip C. Huang is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Chinese Civil Justice, Past and Present Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read Chinese Civil Justice, Past and Present aloud.

What Reading Level is Chinese Civil Justice, Past and Present?

Chinese Civil Justice, Past and Present is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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