Chapter 1 Introduction 1
1.1 Chinese Legal System 3
1.2 Chinese Legislative System 13
1.3 Chinese Judicial System 23
Chapter 2 Constitution 31
2.1 Legal Forms of the Constitution 33
2.2 China'S Main Constitutional Systems 36
2.3 Supervision over the Implementation of the Constitution 42
Chapter 3 Administrative Law and Administrative Litigation Law 45
3.1 Introduction 47
3.2 Administrative Organs and Civil Servants 50
3.3 Administrative Legislation and Administrative Rules 53
3.4 Administrative License 55
3.5 Administrative Penalty 57
3.6 Administrative Coercion 60
3.7 Disclosure of Government Information 63
3.8 Administrative Reconsideration 65
3.9 Administrative Litigation 68
3.10 Administrative Compensation 71
Chapter 4 Civil Law 75
4.1 Overview 77
4.2 Real Right Law 81
4.3 Intellectual Property Law 87
4.4 Contract Law 90
4.5 Tort Law 95
4.6 Marriage,Family and Succession Law 97
Chapter 5 Civil Procedural Law 101
5.1 Introduction 103
5.2 The Basic Systems and Norms of Civil Proceedings 105
5.3 Trial Procedures 117
5.4 Special Provisions of the Civil Procedures Involving Foreign Elements 122
Chapter 6 Substantive Criminal Law 127
6.1 Fundamental Principles and Scope of Application 129
6.2 Elements of Crime,Justifiable Defence and Patterns of Crime 132
6.3 System and Types of Punishments 137
6.4 Concrete Offences 141
Chapter 7 Criminal Procedural Law 149
7.1 The Sources of Criminal Procedural Law 151
7.2 General Principles on Criminal Process 151
7.3 Criminal Proceeding Systems 157
7.4 Criminal Process 162
Chapter 8 Business Law 169
8.1 Company Law 171
8.2 Foreign-Invested Enterprises Law 175
8.3 Law on Negotiable Instruments 179
8.4 Insurance Law 184
8.5 Maritime Law 189
8.6 Bankruptcy Law 195
8.7 Securities Law 201
Chapter 9 Economic Law 209
9.1 Competition Law 211
9.2 Consumer Law 213
9.3 Product Quality Law 215
9.4 Financial Law 218
9.5 Tax Law 223
9.6 Labour Law 229
9.7 Environmental Protection Law 232
Chapter 10 Foreign Trade Law 235
10.1 Foreign Trade Law System 237
10.2 Fundamental Contents ofthe Foreign Trade Law 238
10.3 Foreign Trade Remedies 247