Book/Printed Material The legal system of the People's Republic of China
-
Image 1 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China THE LEGAL SYSTEM OF THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA Information on the legal system of the Peoples Republic of China PRC available to outsiders has always been limited in the years since…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 2 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 2 other a compilation of harbor regulations both of these compilations being confined to narrowly technical subjects neigher touches upon the areas of the law in which most outsiders are interested Since…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 3 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 3 including those termed mediation committees dispose of most interpersonal disputes and instances of misbehavior and handle at least the initial stages of civil matters such as divorce While the Chinese discuss…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 4 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 4 two Chinese officials during separate conversations with him these statements do not reveal any striking departures from the preCultural Revolution situation Chu Muchih a member of the Central Committee of the…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 5 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 5 Further evidence of the current situation in criminal justice on the mainland is contained in a seemingly genuine document published by the Nationalist Chinese in Chung yang jih pao Central Daily…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 6 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 6 Punishment of Counterrevolutionary Activity expressly or by analogy to a specified crime If the death sentence mentioned above was carried out immediately it was in disregard of the provision of Article…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 7 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 7 possibility of divorce with the mediation committee in their place of residence If the mediation committee decided against divorce Hsueh stated the spouse wanting the divorce would have the right to…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 8 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 8 included the husbands past infidelity and beating of his wife and the wifes refusal or inability to refrain from condemning her spouses infidelity in terms that provoked his attacks The judge…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 9 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 9 functioning essentially according to the provisions of these statutes 7 The area with which a street revolutionary committee is concerned is usually coterminous with the area of a public security station…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 10 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 10 countryside and the street committee level in urban areas in an imprecisely defined relationship to the various organs of government at these and higher levels Whether or not the mediation committees…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 11 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 11 points out because the members of these groups also have responsibility for the provision of a variety of social services and have ties with the public security organs their recommendations are…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 12 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 12 is expected to offer his own criticisms of his behavior Sanctions typically involve selfcriticism offered in greater and greater detail before larger and larger groups according to the seriousness of the…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 13 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 13 period 14 they do not shed much light upon the types of disputes and misbehavior now being handled by these groups One hence wonders whether the reported confinement of the activities…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 14 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 14 groups and by the courts On the other hand the courts are said to be dealing almost exclusively with serious criminal cases quite possibly in a manner which does not offer…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 15 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 15 upon the aspects of the thought of Marx and Lenin and Mao Tsetung which have shaped the source of development of the Chinese legal system Marx and Lenin rejected the notion…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 16 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 16 aimed at the class enemies who attempted to undermine the revolution but in which the people that is those who supported the revolution were to enjoy the full freedoms of socialist…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 17 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 18 force is a qualitative requisite for dictatorship Another characteristic manifested by the dictatorship is that it is a regime unshackled by any laws or regulations Since laws and regulations are enacted…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 18 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 18 appeared and after 1957 the possibility of working of draft codes was no longer discussed The PRC hence has never had a code substantive or procedural criminal civil or commercial Further…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 19 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 19 Western legislation is drafted has been heartily condemned as an attempt to keep the law unintelligible to the masses and thereby to make it the exclusive domain of a strata of…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 20 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 20 cases and request instructions from the committees The decision of the party committee rather than that of the judicial cadres is to prevail in cases of disagreement and the following procedure…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 21 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 21 crime The more political the crime the fewer the guarantees the accused enjoyed against arbitrary arrest confinement trial sentencing and imprisonment Chinese juries were explicitly expected to apply Maos theory on…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 22 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 22 being an important even essential part of the judicial process was largely shelved In 1960 a Communist Chinese jurist remarked candidly that this institution provision of the right to defense stipulates…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 23 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 23 policy is the soul of law Since there have been relatively frequent shifts in policy there also have been rather marked disparities in the handling of cases in different areas and…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 24 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 24 endeavor while the expert cadre holds that the technical questions are the most important The Communist Chinese have usually combined on the staff of any given group both technical experts and…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 25 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 25 1957 as the golden age of Chinese law During this period as never since the leadership openly proclaimed that legal cadres were falling short of the standards imposed upon them by…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 26 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 26 During the Cultural Revolution however the formal foundation of the legal system was directly attacked by the radicals A polemical essay appearing in July 1968 in a publication of a Canton…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 27 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 27 Communist Chinese terms those groups which support socialism and the bourgeoisie those groups which oppose socialism The main contradiction now is that between the advanced socialist system and the backward productive…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 28 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 28 As long as class struggle has not been extinguished Mao holds the main task of the Party and the State remains the suppression of class enemies for their activities threaten the…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 29 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 29 The issues that crop up in any discussion of what should be the nature of the law and the legal institutions are in fact very basic issues that affect other political…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 30 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China 30 actual independence of the judiciary a meaningful system of checks and balances among the legal organs etc There is no evidence to suggest that any group within the leadership regard the…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 31 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China FOOTNOTES 1 Jerome Alan Cohen Chinese Law At the Crossroads China Quarterly No 53 JanuaryMarch 1973 p 139 2 Charles Sulzburger mentions the supposed abolition of the procuracy in a report in…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 32 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China Footnotes 2 15 Mao Tsetung Lun jen min min chu chuan cheng On the Peoples Democratic Dictatorship Peking 1953 p 1011 16 Mao Tsetung On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
-
Image 33 of The legal system of the People's Republic of China Footnotes 3 28 The text of Lius and Tungs speeches are in Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China Vol 1 Documents Peking Foreign Languages Press 1956 29 For discussion…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division
- Date: 1974
About this Item
Title
- The legal system of the People's Republic of China
Names
- Library of Congress. Far Eastern Law Division, issuing body
Created / Published
- Washington, D.C. : Far Eastern Law Division, Law Library, Library of Congress, 1974.
Headings
- - Justice, Administration of--China
- - Law--Political aspects--China
- - Rule of law--China
- - Socialism and law
- - China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
- - Abuse of administrative power--China--History--20th century
Notes
- - Typescript.
- - "June 1974"--Page 30.
- - Includes bibliographical references.
- - Description based on online resource; title from PDF caption (Law Library of Congress, viewed April 29, 2020).
Medium
- 1 online resource (approximately 33 pages)
Call Number/Physical Location
- KNQ1572
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2019668196
OCLC Number
- n1152527604
Online Format
- online text
- image