Michael Ng

Li-ann Thio

Kevin YL Tan

Northeast Asian constitutional foundings : the weight of history / Kevin YL Tan -- The 1954 Constitution of China : empire state building / Humphrey Ko -- The making of the Constitutional Order of the Hong Kong SAR : the role of Sino-British diplomacy (1982-90) / Albert HY Chen and Michael HK Ng -- Macao's constitutional founding / Xiaobo Zhai -- The birth of the Constitution of the Republic of China / Chien-Chih Lin -- The Meiji Constitution and Japan's emergence in the International Order, 1853-1905 / Kentaro Matsubara -- Thirty-years-old at birth? The constitutional founding of the Republic of Korea / Chaihark Hahm -- Constitutional founding in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea / Erik Mobrand -- The 1924 Constitution : towards the modernisation of Mongolia / Amarsanaa Batbold and Chadraabal Unurbayar.

Constitutional Foundings in Northeast Asia

This new book in the Constitutionalism in Asia series considers the idea of origins, and of change and continuity in terms of 'constitution-making', which is an on-going process in the Northeast Asian states. The book examines the drafting, nature, core values, and roles of the first modern constitutions during the founding of the 8 modern states/territories in Northeast Asia: China (1949), Taiwan (1947), Hong Kong SAR (1997), Macau SAR (1999), Japan (1889), North Korea (1948 and 1972), South Korea (1948), and Mongolia (1924). The collection provides: - an exploratory description of the process and substantive inputs in the making of the first constitutions of these nations/territories; - analysis of the internal and external (including intra-regional) forces surrounding the making of these constitutions; and - theoretical construction of models to conceptualise the nature and role of the first constitutions (including constituent documents) in the founding of the modern nation-states/territories and their subsequent impact on state-building in the region.

Yun Zhao

A critical evaluation of the latest reform in Chinese law that engages legal scholarship with research of Chinese legal historians.

Michael Ng

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