"An East Gate book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Suisheng Zhao -- Toward a consultative rule of law regime in China / Pan Wei -- Political liberalization without democratization : Pan Wei's proposal for political reform / Suisheng Zhao -- A government of laws : democracy, rule of law, and administrative law reform in China / Randall Peerenboom -- The rule of law as transition to democracy in China / Larry Diamond -- A comparative politics of democratization in China / Edward Friedman -- Pan Wei's consultative rule of law regime and reforming authoritarianism in China / Gunter Schubert -- Toward the rule of law : why China's path will be different from the West / Baohui Zhang -- The people's court in transition : the prospects for Chinese judicial reform / Qianfan Zhang -- State power and unbalanced legal development in China / Yongshun Cai, Songcai Yang -- Law and labor in post-Mao China / Yunqiu Zhang -- The Internet and emerging civil society in China / Guobin Yang -- The Internet and single-party rule in China / Tamara Renee Shie -- Toward a rule of law regime : political reform under China's fourth generation of leadership / Suisheng Zhao -- Reflections on "consultative rule of law regime" : a response to my critics / Pan Wei.

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