Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-302) and index.

"Judicial politics" as state-building / Zhu Suli -- Of constitutions and constitutionalism : trying to build a new political order in China, 1908-1949 / Xiaohong Xiao-Planes -- Epistrophy : Chinese constitutionalism and the 1950s / Glenn D. Tiffert -- Middle income blues : the east Asian model and implications for constitutional development in China / Randall P. Peerenboom -- China's constitutional research and teaching : a state of the art / Tong Zhiwei -- Western constitutional ideas and constitutional discourse in China, 1978-2005 / Yu Xingzhong -- "To take the law as the public" : the diversification of society and legal discourse in contemporary China / Ji Weidong -- Administrative law as a mechanism for political control in contemporary China / He Xin -- Access to justice and constitutionalism in China / Fu Hualing -- Ordinary justice and popular constitutionalism in China / St�ephanie Balme -- Beyond "judicial power" : courts and constitutionalism in modern China / Michael W. Dowdle -- Citizens engage the constitution : the Sun Zhigang incident and constitutional review proposals in the People's Republic of China / Keith J. Hand -- Rights activism in China : the case of lawyer Gao Zhisheng / Eva Pils -- Epilogue : virtual constitutionalism in the late Ming dynasty / Pierre-�Etienne Will.

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