Certain Justice - Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination

"China has an image as a realm of Oriental despotism where law is at best window-dressing and at worst an instrument of coercion and tyranny. The rule of law seems an elusive ideal in the face of entrenched obstacles baked, as it were, into China's cultural and political DNA. In this ... contribution to the interdisciplinary field of law and humanities, Haiyan Lee contends that this image arises from a historical understanding of China's political-legal tradition, particularly the failure to distinguish what she calls high justice and low justice"--

About the author

Haiyan Lee is the Walter A. Haas Professor of the Humanities and professor of Chinese and comparative literature at Stanford University. She is the author of Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950 and The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination.

Product details

• Authors: Haiyan Lee, Lee Haiyan
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9780226825243
• ISBN: 978-0-226-82524-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; China, LAW / Jurisprudence, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Politics & government, Chinese, Literature: history & criticism, Politics and government, Jurisprudence & general issues, Literature: history and criticism, Jurisprudence and general issues