TY - BOOK AU - SCHRAM Stuart R (ed.) TI - Foundations and limits of state power in China SN - 0728601397 (hbk.) PY - 1987/// CY - London PB - University of London KW - CHINA KW - CONSTITUTIONAL LAW KW - GOVERNMENT KW - POLITICS N2 - Collection of papers originally presented at a conference sponsored by the European Science Foundation. Examines the distinctions between Western and Chinese concepts of state legitimacy and also what constituted the state in Imperial times, and when and how this traditional system was translated to the modern communist system. Considers to what extent traditional ideas have been retained within the new framework ER -