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How Has the Legal Consciousness of Chinese Enterprise Managers Transformed since 1949? A Study of Chinese Enterprises under Socialism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2021

Alvin Hoi-Chun Hung
Alvin Hoi-Chun Hung*
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University of Oxford, Oxford
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Abstract

This paper analyses how the legal consciousness of Chinese enterprise managers has transformed in the face of drastic changes brought along by major events in socialist China. During the past 70 years, there have been in place a series of radical and pervasive changes in the legal framework constituted by a communist system frequented by mass political campaigns, trailed by a massive liberalized move towards a market economy. By building upon the thesis of legal-consciousness narratives suggested by Ewick and Silbey, this paper discusses how Chinese managers have evolved through various states of “With the Law,” “Against the Law,” and “Under the Law” legal consciousness. It is suggested that, in the coming era of globalization under socialist China, Chinese enterprise managers may start to embrace a new narrative of legal consciousness—“In the Law”—by participating more actively in the socialist system with Chinese characteristics.

Keywords

legal consciousnessChinese enterprise managersChinese legal transformationsocialism with Chinese characteristicsChina
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Asian Journal of Law and Society , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , June 2022 , pp. 286 - 315
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Asian Journal of Law and Society

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