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  • CQY volume 206 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 206 / June 2011
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    20 June 2011, pp. f1-f6
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    June 2011
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  • Lawyers, State Officials and Significant Others: Symbiotic Exchange in the Chinese Legal Services Market

  • Sida Liu
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    The China Quarterly / Volume 206 / June 2011
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    20 June 2011, pp. 276-293
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    June 2011

  • In China's legal services market, lawyers face strong competition from a variety of alternative legal service providers. Based upon 256 interviews with law practitioners and public officials, three years of ethnographic work on a professional internet forum, and extensive archival research, this article develops a theory of symbiotic exchange to analyse the competition between lawyers, basic-level legal workers and other practitioners in ordinary legal work, as well as how the state regulates these competing occupational groups. It argues that the dynamics of professional competition in the Chinese legal services market can be explained by the symbiotic exchange between law practitioners in the market and their regulatory agencies and officials in the state. Chinese lawyers have a weak market position because their exchange with the state is often not as strong and stable as their competitors. The prevalence of symbiotic exchange leads to the structural isomorphism between market and state institutions in China's transitional economy.

  • ASS volume 45 issue 4 Cover and Back matter

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    Modern Asian Studies / Volume 45 / Issue 4 / July 2011
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    31 May 2011, pp. b1-b6
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  • ASS volume 45 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

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    Modern Asian Studies / Volume 45 / Issue 4 / July 2011
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    31 May 2011, pp. f1-f2
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The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature

The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi
  • Edited by Judith Brown, Anthony Parel
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    28 May 2011
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    21 February 2011
  • Even today, six decades after his assassination in January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi is still revered as the father of the Indian nation. His intellectual and moral legacy, and the example of his life and politics, serve as an inspiration to human rights and peace movements, political activists and students. This book, comprised of essays by renowned experts in the fields of Indian history and philosophy, traces Gandhi's extraordinary story. The first part of the book explores his transformation from a small-town lawyer during his early life in South Africa into a skilled political activist and leader of civil resistance in India. The second part is devoted to Gandhi's key writings and his thinking on a broad range of topics, including religion, conflict, politics and social relations. The final part reflects on Gandhi's image and on his legacy in India, the West, and beyond.

  • ‘Fugitive Mullahs and Outlawed Fanatics’: Indian Muslims in nineteenth century trans-Asiatic Imperial Rivalries

  • SEEMA ALAVI
  • Journal:
    Modern Asian Studies / Volume 45 / Issue 6 / November 2011
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    12 May 2011, pp. 1337-1382

  • This paper follows the careers of ‘outlawed’ Indian Muslim subjects who moved outside the geographical and political space of British India and located themselves at the intersection of nineteenth century trans-Asiatic politics: Hijaz, Istanbul and the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire, and Burma and Acheh in the East. These areas were sites where ‘modern’ Empires (British, Dutch, Ottoman and Russian) coalesced to lay out a trans-Asiatic imperial assemblage. The paper shows how Muslim ‘outlaws’ made careers and carved out their transnational networks by moving across the imperial assemblages of the nineteenth century. British colonial rule, being an important spoke in the imperial wheel, enabled much of this transnationalism to weld together. Webs of connections derived from older forms of Islamic connectivity as well: diplomacy, kinship ties, the writing of commentaries on Islam and its sacred texts in unique ways, oral traditions, madrasa and student contacts. These networks were inclusive and impacted by the tanzimat-inspired scriptural reformist thought in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. They were not narrowly anti-colonial in tone as they derived from a complex inter-play of imperial rivalries in the region. Rather, they were geared towards the triumph of reformist Islam that would unite the umma (community) and engage with the European world order. The paper shows how this imperially-embedded and individual-driven Muslim transnational network linked with Muslim politics rooted within India.

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