A GJ Frontiers article.

Abstract

This article discusses the probability of growth of neo-liberalism in modern China and its implications for Chinese constitutionalism. A China polity under the vision of a neo-liberal regime engenders problems of prescribing a legal system and identifying constitutional ethos. The genesis of this article is a February 21, 2003, symposium of Chinese neo-liberals, who proffer Chinese neo-liberalism in answer to issues of reforms and Chinese constitutionalism. A Chinese neo-liberal constitutional coterie desiderates immediate democracy and a governmental model that mirrors a United States constitutional government, replete with separation of powers and independent judicial review. Such urgings are arguably a denial of both the historicity of Western liberalism and China’s ontological base in tradition, being Confucianism. The historic excesses and abuses of liberalism should serve to frustrate a transplant of neo-liberal constitutionalism in China.

Originally published in Global Jurist Frontiers.

Recommended Citation

Killion, M. Ulric (2003) "China and Neo-liberal Constitutionalism," Global Jurist Frontiers: Vol. 3 : Iss. 2, Article 3.
Available at: http://www.bepress.com/gj/frontiers/vol3/iss2/art3