Chinese Small Property - The Co-Evolution of Law and Social Norms

Qiao demonstrates how an impersonal and unbounded market can operate without legal protection or enforcement of property and contract rights.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The evolution of land law in China: partial reform, vested interests, and small property; 2. Planting houses in Shenzhen; 3. Small property, big market: a focal point explanation; 4. Small property, adverse possession and optional law; 5. Small property in transition: a tale of two villages; 6. All quiet on the judicial front?; Conclusion: market transition: sticky norms or sticky law?

About the author

Shitong Qiao is Assistant Professor of Law at The University of Hong Kong and New York University Global Associate Professor of Law. Qiao graduated from top Chinese and US law schools with numerous prizes, including the Top Academic Prize from Peking University and the Judge Ralph K. Winter Prize from Yale University, Connecticut. He advises government agencies, inside and outside China, on the Chinese land regime. His publications on property and social norms have appeared in leading English and Chinese law journals.

Summary

Chinese Small Property presents a persuasive argument for how market transition has succeeded in China without rule of law, and how market norms have triggered social and legal change. Based on a case study of Shenzhen city, Qiao provides a first-of-its-kind examination of the co-evolution of property law and norms.

Product details

• Authors: Shitong Qiao, Shitong (The University of Hong Kong) Qiao
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781316628737
• ISBN: 978-1-316-62873-7
• No. of pages: 229
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; China, LAW / General, Housing & homelessness, Law & society, Housing and homelessness, Law and society, sociology of law, Legal system: general, Legal systems: general