Legal Reforms in China and Vietnam

<p>Although the adoption of market reforms has been a key factor leading to China’s recent economic growth China continues to be governed by a communist party and has a socialist-influenced legal system. Vietnam starting later also with a socialist-influenced legal system has followed a similar reform path and other countries too are now looking towards China and Vietnam as models for development. This book provides a comprehensive comparative assessment of legal developments in China and Vietnam examining similarities and differences and raising important questions such as: Is there a distinctive Chinese model and/or a more general East Asian Model? If so can it be flexibly applied to social and economic conditions in different countries? If it cannot be applied to a culturally and politically similar country like Vietnam is the model transportable elsewhere in the world? Combining ‘micro’ or interpretive methods with ‘macro’ or structural traditions the book provides a nuanced account of legal reforms in China and Vietnam highlighting the factors likely to promote change or resist the spread of the Chinese model. </p>