| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
China: from revolution to reform |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgement -- Acronyms -- Introduction: Building on Fear -- 1. Born in Blood, 1927-1935 -- 2. Cornerstone or Aberration? 1935-1949 -- 3. From "Excessive Lenience" to Harshness, 1949-1951 -- 4. A Deliberate Purge, 1952-1953 -- 5. A Golden Age? 1953-May 1957 -- 6. The Great Leap of Law, June 1957-1965 -- 7. Not the Worst Period of Law, 1966-1976 -- Conclusion: From Party's Fear to People's Fear -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Drawing on hundreds of newly released judicial archives and court cases, this book analyzes the communist judicial system in China from its founding period to the death of Mao Zedong. It argues that the communist judicial system was built when the CCP was engaged in a life-or-death struggle with the GMD, meaning that the overriding aim of the judicial system was, from the outset, to safeguard the Party against both internal and external adversaries. This fundamental insecurity and perennial fear of loss of power obsessed the Party throughout the era of Mao and beyond, prompting it to launch numerous political campaigns, which forced communist judicial cadres to choose between upholding basic legal norms and maintaining Party order. In doing all of this, The Communist Judicial System in China, 1927-1976: Building on Fear fills a major lacuna in our understanding of communist-era China |
| Analysis |
Fear, Communist Judicial System, Mao's China |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 25, 2021) |
| Subject |
Judicial power -- China -- 20th century
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Courts -- China -- 20th century
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Communism -- China -- 20th century
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Central government policies.
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Systems of law.
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LAW -- Government -- General.
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Communism
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Courts
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Judicial power
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Political parties and party platforms.
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Systems of law.
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Law and society, sociology of law.
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China
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| Genre/Form |
e-books.
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Livres numériques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9048554101 |
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9789048554102 |
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