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2 - Personality Rights in China’s New Civil Code
- By Wang Liming, Xiong Bingwan
Edited by Hao Jiang, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Pietro Sirena, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan
Book:

The Making of the Chinese Civil Code

Published online:

31 August 2023

Print publication:

14 September 2023, pp 41-76
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This chapter explores and assesses the significance of the adoption of a separate part (or, book 编) on personality rights in China’s new Civil Code. We argue that there are profound socioeconomic meanings underlying the technical changes in the classic structure of the civil codes in civil law tradition. On one hand, the stand-alone part on personality rights is the fruit and embodiment of the rising rights consciousness of personality in Chinese civil society, which has been largely unexplored in existing China studies. On the other hand, the part provides a new legislative model to comprehensively tackle the pervasive technological challenges to the protection of personal spheres, which is entangled with the rising rights consciousness over personality in China. Yet, the robustness of the acknowledgment of personality rights in this special part in promoting the protection of such rights remains to be tested in future court judgments.