Author: Jiang Jinsong

Hardcover: 560 pages

Publisher: Foreign Languages Press (2003)

Language: English

 

Contents: This is the first English book on the National People's Congress (NPC) model written by a Chinese political scholar. It is firm in its political stance but in a realistic fashion it calls a pikestaff a pikestaff. It has collected academic findings by Chinese and non-Chinese scholars about the NPC system and advances the author's creative views about a series of questions concerning the NPC model. This book fulfills the urgent necessity felt by many Chinese organizations to present China's Constitution, the people's congressional government and the NPC system to the world. It is written to serve interested lay readers with a thorough introduction to the modern Chinese governing system. It likewise will satisfy specialists who will want to read it for constitutional and political studies and teachings as well.

(China.org.cn October 24, 2006)