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Comparative Law

Comparative Law. March 7 2006 Asian Legal Systems: China. Confucius. 551-479 B.C. Analects Li Fa. Chinese Dynasties. 221 B.C. -1911 See handout Periodic warlordism and civil war But much remained the same. Chinese religions. Buddhism Taoism. 19 th Century China.

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Comparative Law

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  1. Comparative Law March 7 2006 Asian Legal Systems: China

  2. Confucius • 551-479 B.C. • Analects • Li • Fa

  3. Chinese Dynasties • 221 B.C. -1911 • See handout • Periodic warlordism and civil war • But much remained the same

  4. Chinese religions • Buddhism • Taoism

  5. 19th Century China • Opium War (1839-1842) • European spheres of influence • Dowager Empress Wu Cixi • Rebellions (e.g. Taiping, Boxer) • Failure to reform • Abdication of Pu Yu, the last Qing Emperor

  6. Early 20th Century China • World War I • Nationalists (GMD) – Sun Yatsen, Chiang Kai Shek • Communists (CCP) Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai

  7. Japanese Invasion • 1931 Manchuria • 1934 Long March • 1937 Attack Beijing • Unity between Nationalists and Communists • Occupation except North (Communist)

  8. Peoples Republic of China • 1949 • Nationalize industry, land redistribuion • 1951 uprising in Tibet (1959 failed coup) • 1957 “Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom” • 1958 Great Leap Forward – a disaster

  9. Cultural Revolution • 1966 reaches Beijing university • Red Guards • Gang of Four (Jiang Qing) • 1976 Mao dies, arrest of Gang of Four

  10. Deng Xiaoping • In power from late 1970s to 1993 when Jiang Zemin took control

  11. Modern leader • Jiang stepped down officially in 2002 (but remains powerful behind the scenes) • Power passed to next generation of technocrats led by Hu Jintao

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