Stéphanie Balme and Michael W. DowdleZhu SuliXiaohong Xiao-PlanesGlenn D. TiffertRandall P. PeerenboomTong ZhiweiYu XingzhongJi WeidongHe XinFu HualingStéphanie BalmeMichael W. DowdleKeith J. HandEva PilsPierre-Étienne Will

Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
1 Introduction: Exploring for Constitutionalism in 21st Century China	p. 1
Part 1 Constitutionalism as Envisioning the State
2 "Judicial Politics" as State-Building	p. 23
3 Of Constitutions and Constitutionalism: Trying to Build a New Political Order in China, 1908-1949	p. 37
4 Epistrophy: Chinese Constitutionalism and the 1950s	p. 59
5 Middle Income Blues: The East Asian Model and Implications for Constitutional Development in China	p. 77
Part 2 The Development of a Political Jurisprudence
6 China's Constitutional Research and Teaching: A State of the Art	p. 99
7 Western Constitutional Ideas and Constitutional Discourse in China, 1978-2005	p. 111
8 "To Take the Law as the Public": The Diversification of Society and Legal Discourse in Contemporary China	p. 125
Part 3 Transmitting Constitutionalism: Judicial Power and the Justice System
9 Administrative Law as a Mechanism for Political Control in Contemporary China	p. 143
10 Access to Justice and Constitutionalism in China	p. 163
11 Ordinary Justice and Popular Constitutionalism in China	p. 179
12 Beyond "Justicial Power": Courts and Constitutionalism in Modern China	p. 199
Part 4 Toward a Popular Constitutionalism
13 Citizens Engage the Constitution: The Sun Zhigang Incident and Constitutional Review Proposals in the People's Republic of China	p. 221
14 Rights Activism in China: The Case of Lawyer Gao Zhisheng	p. 243
15 Epilogue: Virtual Constitutionalism in the Late Ming Dynasty	p. 261
Bibliography	p. 275
Index	p. 303