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Book Reviews 393 BOOK REVIEWS Iuridicheskaia politika i pravovaia sistema Kitaiskoi Narodnoi Respubliki. By E.V. Kumanin. Moscow: Izd. Nauka, 1990. 158 pp. Rb. 2.40 Mr. Kumanin has written an interesting work that explores the relation- ship between legal policy and the legal system of the People's Republic of China from its inception to the current bid aimed at mobilizing the services of the law for the task of modernizing society. The monograph is divided into five main sections: politics and law in China - historical traditions of interrelationship and contemporary practice of interaction; the structure of the legal system of the PRC; constitutional legislation and the reform of the political structure; the reform of the economic system and the development of Chinese law; social and legal problems of contemporary China. The study displays several good features. First, we have the attempt to view legal developments in the PRC through the prism of legal engineer- ing in the sense of trying to connect legal phenomena to social, political and economic desiderata pursued by the regime. Instead of an abstract, and often arid, inventorying of the contents of the normative portfolio in a manner conveying the impression that the array ofwritten rules http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Review of Central and East European Law Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1992 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0925-9880
eISSN
1573-0352
DOI
10.1163/157303592X00285
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393 BOOK REVIEWS Iuridicheskaia politika i pravovaia sistema Kitaiskoi Narodnoi Respubliki. By E.V. Kumanin. Moscow: Izd. Nauka, 1990. 158 pp. Rb. 2.40 Mr. Kumanin has written an interesting work that explores the relation- ship between legal policy and the legal system of the People's Republic of China from its inception to the current bid aimed at mobilizing the services of the law for the task of modernizing society. The monograph is divided into five main sections: politics and law in China - historical traditions of interrelationship and contemporary practice of interaction; the structure of the legal system of the PRC; constitutional legislation and the reform of the political structure; the reform of the economic system and the development of Chinese law; social and legal problems of contemporary China. The study displays several good features. First, we have the attempt to view legal developments in the PRC through the prism of legal engineer- ing in the sense of trying to connect legal phenomena to social, political and economic desiderata pursued by the regime. Instead of an abstract, and often arid, inventorying of the contents of the normative portfolio in a manner conveying the impression that the array ofwritten rules

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Review of Central and East European LawBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1992

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