In China, There Is a Private System of Contracts Enforcement Going On.

There're two parts to this story, and you mentioned one of them. One part is the legacy of the post imperial the nationalist era's experiment with german type institutions. This did not work well for a whole range of reasons. And that doesn't mean there's something fundamentally wrong with german or french legal systems. There's a second set of institutions, though, that turn out to be more important, as far as i can understand, in china to day. Those are the informal contract enforcing our institutions. In the private sector, like gwansi, the networks of kinship or of friendship,. which are often the reason that disputesdo go to court or don't