ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The Journal of Chinese Law gratefully acknowledges the gener-
ous grant from the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law
which made establishment of the Journal possible.

EDITORS' NOTE

The Journal of Chinese Law commenced publication in 1987
under the auspices of the Columbia University School of Law and the
Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law. The Journal pro-
vides a forum for legal practitioners and scholars from China, the
United States and elsewhere to discuss the broad range of issues that
relate to law in China. The Journal welcomes multidisciplinary, his-
torical and comparative manuscripts, as well as those describing and
analyzing aspects of contemporary Chinese law and practice.

The Journal will follow the pinyin system of transliterating Chi-
nese into English. Pinyin is the system currently in use in the People's
Republic of China where publishers adopted it on January 1, 1979, in
response to a decision of the State Council. Methods other than
pinyin will be used when a certain version of a Chinese proper noun
has achieved widespread currency in English or when the title of or
excerpt from a publication in a language other than Chinese incorpo-
rates a non-pinyin spelling.

A glossary of Chinese-language periodicals cited in this issue, in-
cluding abbreviations and English translations, is found on page 201.

The Journal welcomes your financial support. Contributions can
be sent in care of the Journal to the Center for Chinese Legal Studies,
Columbia University School of Law, New York, N.Y. 10027.