Constitutional Reforms in China

Analyses China's modern constitutional reforms and the causes of their failures, and explores strategies toward success within the existing system.

The reformist perspective, focusing on the internal dynamism and weakness of the Chinese society, may also have an impact on China's international relations and the strategies that the major powers adopt toward China.This book offers the reformist perspective of one of the most persistent and outspoken constitutional reformers in China. Through the analysis of landmark constitutional events in China since the late nineteenth century, it reveals the fatal dilemma faced by constitutional reform and the deadly dangers of any violent revolution that arises out of the frustration with the repeated failures of reform. Although there is no easy way out of such a predicament, the book analyzes available resources in the existing system and suggests possible strategies that might bring success to future constitutional reforms.