China's Legal Landscape

The legal landscape is an integral part of the institutional setting in which we live our lives. What we don't know is whether or not china's next experiment with importing the essentially western notion of the rule of law will be more successful than past attempts. In shakespeare's midsummer night's dream, a person was changed into a donkey, and the other person cried, bless thee thou art translated. Common law translated, into chinese might well turn out be like bottom a donkey, if not an ass.