On the Renaissance of China’s JudiciaryWerner Pfennig

ASIEN – Nr. 3 (1982) pp. 49–73

Observations of the developments of the judicial system in post-Mao China. Domination of the country’s political system by the Communist Party (CP) and its efforts to build the legal system. The trial against ten former prominent politicians (including the „Gang of four“) meant to give self-consciousness to judicial institutions. Problems in the trilateral relationship between modernization, democracy and legal system.