Resolving Land Disputes in East Asia: Exploring the Limits of Law

doi:10.1017/CBO9781107589193

Economic development and mass urbanization have unleashed unprecedented levels of land disputes in East Asia. In China and Vietnam especially, courts and other legal institutions struggle to find lasting solutions. It is against this background of legal failure that this book brings together leading scholars to understand how state agencies, land users and land developers imaginatively engage with each other to resolve disputes. Drawing on empirically rich case studies, contributors explore the limits of law and legal institutions in resolving land disputes and reveal insights into how key actors in East Asia understand land disputes. Their studies reveal promising dispute resolution practices and point to the likely ways that states will deal with land disputes in the future.

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Resolving Land Disputes in East Asia - Half title page
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Resolving Land Disputes in East Asia - Title page
pp iii-iii
Exploring the Limits of Law
- By Hualing Fu, John Gillespie
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Copyright page
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Contents
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Figures
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Tables
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List of Contributors
pp x-xiv
- By Lei Chen, Jie Cheng, Hualing Fu, John Gillespie, Say H. Goo, Xin He, Christopher Heurlin, Toan Le, Alice Lee, Duan Lin, Eva Pils, Nguyen Hung Quang, Hua Shao, Po-Fang Tsai, Frank K. Upham, Susan H. Whiting, Changdong Zhang
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Preface
pp xv-xvi
- By John Gillespie, Hualing Fu
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Part I - Theorizing land disputes in socialist Asia
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1 - Resolving land disputes in East Asia
pp 3-36
Exploring the limits of the law
- By John Gillespie, Hualing Fu
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2 - Property rights, commodification, and land disputes in contemporary socialist Asia
pp 37-56
- By Frank K. Upham
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Part II - China case studies
pp 57-272
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3 - Legal and institutional analysis of land expropriation in China
pp 59-85
- By Lei Chen
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4 - The judicial role in land-taking cases
pp 86-114
- By Jie Cheng
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5 - Contending conceptions of ownership in urbanizing China
pp 115-172
- By Eva Pils
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6 - What does Wukan offer?
pp 173-193
Land-taking, law, and dispute resolution
- By Hualing Fu
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7 - Protest-supported housing demolition litigation and social change in China
pp 194-221
- By Xin He
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8 - Courts and political stability
pp 222-247
Mediating rural land disputes
- By Susan H. Whiting, Hua Shao
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9 - Power and rule by law in rural China
pp 248-272
State-initiated mediation in land disputes
- By Changdong Zhang, Christopher Heurlin
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Part III - Vietnam case studies
pp 273-314
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10 - An historical overview of Vietnamese land law and dispute resolution
pp 275-290
- By Toan Le, Nguyen Hung Quang
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11 - Narrating land disputes in three Vietnamese communities
pp 291-314
- By John Gillespie
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Part IV - Taiwan case studies
pp 315-356
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12 - An overview of Taiwanese land law and dispute resolution
pp 317-330
- By Po-Fang Tsai, Duan Lin
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13 - Customary law and modern society
pp 331-356
Land disputes of Jisigongye (祭祀公業, ancestral worship property) in Taiwan
- By Duan Lin, Po-Fang Tsai
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Part V - Hong Kong case studies
pp 357-410
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14 - An overview of Hong Kong land law and dispute resolution
pp 359-373
- By Say H. Goo
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15 - The small house policy and Tso and Tong land
pp 374-391
Finding the interface between state and customary law in Hong Kong
- By Say H. Goo
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16 - Flexibly applying the law to regulate illegal buildings in Hong Kong
pp 392-410
- By Alice Lee
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Index
pp 411-447
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