Trial of Modernity: Judicial Reform in Early Twentieth-Century China, 1901-1937
ISBN: 9780804779500
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Stanford University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: History of Law Comparative Law; Judicial Review;

This book illuminates what judicial modernity actually meant to the Chinese state and society in the early twentieth century and how the judicial reform resulted in paradoxical consequences due to a lack of resources and a disjunction between the national reform agenda and local social ecology.

Xiaoqun Xu is Associate Professor of history at Christopher Newport University in Virginia. He is also the author of Chinese Professionals and the Republican State: The Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai, 1912-1937 (2001).

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