Contents -- Foreword / Wejen Chang -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Problem of Paradigms / Karen G. Turner -- 1 / Conceptions and Receptions of Legality: Understanding the Complexity of Law Reform in Modern China / Yuanyuan Shen -- 2 / Law, Law, What Law? Why Western Scholars of China Have Not Had More to Say about Its Law / William P. Alford -- 3 / Using the Past to Make a Case for the Rule of Law / Jonathan K. Ocko -- 4 / Rule of Man and the Rule of Law in China: Punishing Provincial Governors during the Qing / R. Kent Guy -- 5 / Collective Responsibility in Qing Criminal Law / Joanna Waley-Cohen -- 6 / True Confessions? Chinese Confessions Then and Now / Alison W. Conner -- 7 / Law and Discretion in Contemporary Chinese Courts / Margaret Y.K. Woo -- 8 / Equality and Justice in Official and Popular Views about Civil Obligations: China and Taiwan / Pitman B. Potter -- 9 / Language and Law: Sources of Systemic Vagueness and Ambiguous Authority in Chinese Statutory Language / Claudia Ross and Lester Ross -- 10 / The Future of Federalism in China / Tahirih V. Lee -- 11 / The Rule of Law Imposed from Outside: China's Foreign-Oriented Legal Regime since 1978 / James V. Feinerman -- Epilogue: The Deep Roots of Resistance to Law Codes and Lawyers in China / Jack L. Dull -- Contributors -- Index.