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cjal-3235	Clarke, Donald C.	How Do We Know When an Enterprise Exists? Unanswerable Questions and Legal Polycentricity in China	2005	22	.pdf	application/pdf	10178	411	51	[19:l ENTERPRISES IN CHINA As a result, Chinese enterprise law is only a part of what there is to say about Chinese enterprise organization and the practical rights of various claimants to enterprise assets: investors, creditors, managers, workers, customers, tort victims, and others. [A] corporation ... exists only in contemplation of law, and by force of the law; and where that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have no existence.' Where the law has not made provisions about other forms of companies, this by no means implies that they cannot be established, exploration may be carried out in the course of practice .... 2 I. INTRODUCTION One of the most perplexing aspects of Chinese enterprise law 3 concerns the conditions under which state institutions will acknowledge and give effect to the existence of a business organization distinct from the natural or legal persons that participate in its operations.	cache/cjal-3235.pdf	txt/cjal-3235.txt