Legal reforms in China and Vietnam : a comparison of Asian communist regimes / edited by John Gillespie and Albert H.Y. Chen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Comparing legal development in China and Vietnam : an introduction / John Gillespie and Albert H. Y. Chen -- Rule of law, democracy and the sequencing debate : lessons from China and Vietnam / Randall Peerenboom -- Legal thought and legal development in the People's Republic of China 1949-2008 / Albert H. Y. Chen -- The juridification of state regulation in Vietnam / John Gillespie -- Toward regulatory neutrality in a party-state? : a review of administrative law reforms in China / Zheng Ge -- Achievements and challenges in developing a law-based state in contemporary Vietnam : how to shoe a turtle? / Matthiew Salomon and Vu Doan Ket -- Access to justice in China : potentitals, limits, and alternatives / Fu Hualing -- Access to justice in Vietnam : state supply : private distrust / Pip Nicholson -- Commercial regulatory reform in China during transition : an alternative path to the regulatory state / Leng Jing -- The development of commercial regulation in Vietnam's market economy / Melanie Beresford -- China's lawyers and their training : enduring influences and disconnects / Alison W. Connor -- Legal education and the legal profession in contemporary Vietnam : tradition and modification / Bui Thi Bich Lien -- Bottom-up regulation by business associations and companies in China / Chenxia Shi -- Legal diffusion and the role of non-state actors in shaping the regulatory environment in Vietnam / Nguyen Hung Quang.

Although the adoption of market reforms has been a key factor leading to China{u2019}s recent economic growth, China continues to be governed by a communist party and has a socialist-influenced legal system. Vietnam, starting later, also with a socialist-influenced legal system, has followed a similar reform path, and other countries too are now looking towards China and Vietnam as models for development. This book provides a comprehensive, comparative assessment of legal developments in China and Vietnam, examining similarities and differences, and raising important questions such as: Is there a distinctive Chinese model, and/or a more general East Asian Model? If so, can it be flexibly applied to social and economic conditions in different countries? If it cannot be applied to a culturally and politically similar country like Vietnam, is the model transportable elsewhere in the world? Combining {u2018}micro{u2019} or interpretive methods with {u2018}macro{u2019} or structural traditions, the book provides a nuanced account of legal reforms in China and Vietnam, highlighting the factors likely to promote, change or resist the spread of the Chinese model.