Book Review: A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-23-2023

Abstract

While there is already much excellent work in the genre of Chinese Law and Literature, Haiyan Lee’s A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination (University of Chicago Press 2023) sets a new standard for the field. This is a review Lee’s smart and ambitious book, which far exceeds the bounds of both law and literature, expanding into adjacent fields of legal and literary humanities: history, political theory, moral philosophy, and cognitive psychology, to name just some of the many literatures on which Lee draws. A Certain Justice is filled with exciting local and global insights, some of which are dazzling.

Keywords

justice, Haiyan Lee, orientalism, socialist China, liberal capitalism, law, History, Chinese legal imagination

Publication Title

Law & Literature

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2023.2268371

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