Chinese Legal Reform

This collection assesses the legal developments which have taken place since the 1980s in China. It discusses China's achievements in building a new legal system and identifies the theoretical and institutional limitations of China's legal reform. Featuring an extensive case-study of foreign investment law, this book considers a wide-ranging set of interconnecting variables in China's changing social context, in order to examine and illustrate the gap between the text and actual practice of the law, especially as it relates to foreign direct investment. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese Law, Business and Economics, as well as to business investors in China.

Yan Wang gained her Master of Law degree (LLM) in China, and a Doctor of Law degree (LLD) from Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden. Her previous positions include working in a major Swedish law firm in Stockholm and as a lecturer in law at universities in both China and Sweden. She is now a lawyer in Beijing with the firm Perkins Coie LLP, advising Western companies on their investment activities in China.

Introduction; Chapter 1 The main features of China's new legal system; Chapter 2 The politico-economic dilemma of China's foreign investment law; Chapter 3 The international background to China's foreign investment law; Chapter 4 Objectives and framework of foreign investment law; Chapter 5 Legal controls on foreign direct investment; Chapter 6 Legal incentives to foreign direct investment; Chapter 7 The legal protection of foreign investors' management autonomy; Chapter 8 The protection of foreign investors' contract rights; Chapter 9 Conclusion;