The immense process of economic and social transformation currently underway in China and Vietnam is well known and extensively documented. However, less attent

A fresh perspective on socialist law as practiced in China and Vietnam, two major socialist states.

Although the adoption of market reforms has been a key factor leading to China’s recent economic growth, China continues to be governed by a communist party a

After the collapse of the Soviet bloc, there are only five socialist or communist countries left in the world – China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam �

In 1974, a small group of young intellectuals, the Li Yizhe group, circulated their dissident manifesto, ‘On Socialist Democracy and the Legal System,’ a pr