Legal Reforms in China and Vietnam A Comparison of Asian Communist Regimes [Paperback]

Although the adoption of market reforms has been a key factor leading to Chinas recent economic growth, China continues to be governed by a communist party and has a socialist-influenced legal system. Vietnam, starting later, also with a socialist-influenced legal system, has followed a similar reform path, and other countries too are now looking towards China and Vietnam as models for development. This book provides a comprehensive, comparative assessment of legal developments in China and Vietnam, examining similarities and differences, and raising important questions such as: Is there a distinctive Chinese model, and/or a more general East Asian Model? If so, can it be flexibly applied to social and economic conditions in different countries? If it cannot be applied to a culturally and politically similar country like Vietnam, is the model transportable elsewhere in the world? Combining micro or interpretive methods with macro or structural traditions, the book provides a nuanced account of legal reforms in China and Vietnam, highlighting the factors likely to promote, change or resist the spread of the Chinese model.

Part I Introduction.  Chapter 1 Introduction: China and Vietnam Compared Professor Albert Chen University of Hong Kong and Professor John Gillespie.  Chapter 2 Sequencing Chinese Legal Development Professor Randall Peerenboom.  Part II Debating legal development in China and Vietnam.  Chapter 3 Legal Thought and Legal Development in the Peoples Republic of China Professor Albert Chen.  Chapter 4 The Juridification of State Regulation in Vietnam Professor John Gillespie.  Part III Developing an Administrative Law System.  Introduction: Professor Michael Dowdle.  Chapter 5 Towards Regulatory Neutrality in a Party-State? A Review of Administrative Law Reforms in China Assistant ProflÃ%