Tag: China
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When German Influences Met Competing Ideologies: Constitutional Design of Executive-Legislative Relations in Post-WWII China and Japan
Introduction While the legal systems of China and Japan were both historically rooted in traditions, social rules, and Confucian values, Western laws and legal doctrines reshaped both countries’ legal systems in large parts of their modern history. Among those Western influences, German laws played a crucial role. Shortly after the Second World War, China and…
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Liu Yuan: The Godfather of Jazz in Post-Mao China
in HumanitiesJazz is an African American music, but it has increasingly become an international music embraced by people from different places across the globe. As a harbinger and an ingenious player of jazz in China, Liu Yuan (刘元, b. 1960) is known by many as the “China’s Godfather of Jazz” (Liu and Huang; Marlow 122–23; Zhong).…