China's development into a world economic power and its continuing integration with the United States economy raise the question whether China's own history and the socialist context of its domestic corporate law may affect the meaning of business terms in use both internationally and in...

China's economy has ascended rapidly to become one of the world's most powerful economic forces yet there is evidence such growth may be slowing. In particular, the combination of high unit output and low wages that have contributed to China's economic success are under increasing pressure due...

In the past decade, Asian countries have adopted various corporate governance measures with the hope that good law will facilitate capital market development. One of the measures adopted by Asian countries to revamp corporate boards is to enhance board independence by introducing the institution...

From the start of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) "corporatization" project in the late 1980s, a Chinese corporate governance regime subject to increasingly enabling legal norms has been determined by mandatory regulations imposed by the PRC securities regulator, the China Securities...

This article discusses the extent to which rule of law principles have been embraced within the language, principles and practice of China’s Company Law. The paper discusses different understandings of the rule of law that are to be found in the wider literature. Whilst China has affirmed the...

This paper examines four articles in the first chapter of the P.R.C. Company Law (2006) that bear very little relation to anything in the company legislation of other major industrial jurisdictions. At first sight, these articles lack any corresponding penalty provisions, and therefore appear to...

Chinese law relating to companies and corporate regulation has developed significantly since Chinese-foreign joint ventures were first permitted in 1979. For foreign investors, however, changes and improvements in the Company Law regime, have not necessarily improved their position. Despite...

This article critically engages the international debate on regulatory approaches to corporate creditor protection. It analyses recent reforms to the PRC Company Law in 2014, which removed minimum capital requirements for most limited liability companies in China. Using Chinese court cases, the...

This article reveals evidence-based details of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) arbitral proceedings (1990-2000), allowing unprecedented insights into Chinese international business arbitration. It begins by confirming the prominence of Chinese foreign...