Review of Xiaoqun Xu, Trial of Modernity: Judicial Reform in Early Twentieth-Century China, 1901-37

Abstract:     
Review of Xiaoqun Xu's "Trial of Modernity: Judicial Reform in Early Twentieth-Century China, 1901-37" (Stanford University Press, 2008) and discussion of relationships between late Qing, early Republican judicial reform and 21st century judicial reform discourse in the PRC.

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Keywords: China, judicial reform, rule of law, legal history

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