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04205aam a2200637 i 4500 001 4C3E80662E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240619010048 008 220916t20232023ilua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022044962 020 $a 0226825256 020 $a 9780226825250 020 $a 0226825248 020 $a 9780226825243 035 $a (OCoLC)1345243189 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCF $d BDX $d UKMGB $d LYU $d YDX $d OCLCO $d GYG $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- 050 00 $a PL2303 $b .L3763 2023 100 1 $a Lee, Haiyan, $e author. $4 aut 245 12 $a A certain justice : $b toward an ecology of the Chinese legal imagination / $c Haiyan Lee. 264 1 $a Chicago, IL : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2023. 300 $a xii, 338 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t Multispecies justice. $t Low justice -- $t Transitional justice -- $t Exceptional justice -- $t Poetic justice -- $t Multispecies justice. 520 $a "China has an image as a realm of Oriental despotism where law is at best window-dressing and at worst an instrument of coercion and tyranny. The rule of law seems an elusive ideal in the face of entrenched obstacles baked, as it were, into China's cultural and political DNA. In this highly original contribution to the interdisciplinary field of law and humanities, Haiyan Lee contends that this image arises from an ahistorical understanding of China's political-legal tradition, particularly the failure to distinguish what she calls high justice and low justice. Lee argues that the liberal (and, so to speak, horizontal) conception of justice as fairness is quite different from the Chinese understanding of law. In the Chinese legal imagination, she shows, justice is a vertical concept, with low justice between individuals firmly subordinated to the high justice of the state. China's political-legal culture mistrusts law's ability to deliver justice and privileges moral over procedural justice. Lee shows that Chinese literature and film invariably dramatize the relationship between law and morality in ways that emphasize law's concession to moral sentiments and the triumph of moral justice through the discretion of a sagacious judge or the defiance of a vigilante hero. As China rises to global superpower status, its conception of justice can no longer be treated as a pale, floundering, and negligible sideshow to the legal drama of defending liberty and upholding human rights in the West. Lee's book helps us recognize the fight for justice outside the familiar arenas of liberal democracy and in terms other than those furnished by the rule of law"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Chinese literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Justice in literature. 650 0 $a Law in literature. 650 0 $a Motion pictures $z China $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Justice, Administration of, in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Law in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Justice, Administration of $x Moral and ethical aspects $z China. 650 0 $a Law and ethics. 650 6 $a Litterature chinoise $y 20e siecle $x Histoire et critique. 650 6 $a Justice dans la litterature. 650 6 $a Droit dans la litterature. 650 6 $a Cinema $z Chine $y 20e siecle $x Histoire et critique. 650 6 $a Justice $x Administration, au cinema. 650 6 $a Droit au cinema. 650 6 $a Droit et morale. 650 7 $a Chinese literature $2 fast 650 7 $a Justice, Administration of, in motion pictures $2 fast 650 7 $a Justice, Administration of $x Moral and ethical aspects $2 fast 650 7 $a Justice in literature $2 fast 650 7 $a Law and ethics $2 fast 650 7 $a Law in literature $2 fast 650 7 $a Law in motion pictures $2 fast 650 7 $a Motion pictures $2 fast 651 7 $a China $2 fast 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619010815.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4C3E80662E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search