Thierry PAIRAULT To quote the great jurist Sir Henri Summer Maine, codification is to give orderly arrangement to the law, to deliver it from obscurity, uncertainty, and inconsistency, to clear it of irrelevancies and to facilitate its application. The Sun Dawu Affair, which is about a small...

To maintain the momentum of its economic and social modernisation, China needs to upgrade the skills and abilities of its labour force. This paper will explore whether China?s creation of a labour market and its education and vocational training systems will be able to meet this challenge.

When the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, it clearly identifies pawnbroking as mere usury. This has been the official stance till the late 1980s when private, semi-private and even state-owned pawnshop like businesses began to spring up everywhere in China. It took about ten years...