JOURNAL OF CHINESE LAW
VOL. 4 SPRING 1990 NO. 1

CONTENTS

SYMPOSIUM ON TAIWAN

PREFACE The Editors

FINANCIAL INSTUONS IN TAIVAN:
AN ANALYSIS OF THE REGULATORY

SCHEME Wallace Wen-Yeu Wang
& James Ting-Yeh Yang

AN UNCOMMON CASE OF BIGAMY:

AN UNCOMMON CONSTITUTIONAL
INTERPRETATION Nigel N. T. Li

& Joyce C Fan

CHANGING FORCES OF CONSTITUTIONAL AND

REGULATORY REFORM IN TAIvAN Yeh Jiunn-Rong

BRIDGE ACROSS THE FORMOSA STRAIT:
PRIVATE LAW RELATIONS BETWEEN
TAiwAN AND MAINLAND CHINA Chen Tung-Pi

THE CONCEPT OF STATEHOOD AND

THE STATUS OF TAIWAN Michael C Davis

COMMENTARY

CABINET RULE IN THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA:

A CONSTITUTIONAL ARGUMENT

THE DEATH PENALTY IN TAIVAN AND
MAINLAND CHINA: SHOULD IT
BE ABOLISHED?

Hu Fu 161

Tsai Tun-Ming

BOOK REVIEW



JOURNAL OF CHINESE LAW
VOL. 4 SPRING 1990 NO. 1

Editor-in-Chief
R. RANDLE EDWARDS

Managing Editors
CHARLES XIAOJIA Li
STEVEN L. TORONTO

Articles Editors
ANDREW CASE

PHILLIP CHRITrON

CLINT HANNI

PETER LIN

Notes Editors
LAURA STRAUSFELD

JIN-KAI SYZ

Senior Editor
ZHU HE

Editors

ANDREW BELL

RICHARD DING

LEE EDWARDS

PETER GALLAGHER

PHILLIP GREENBERG

LISA GREGORY

Li HUANTING

HOWARD JIANG

JEFF KATEMAN

JULIE SPELLMAN
TERRY THEOLOGIDIS

ELLA WONG

Board of Advisors
MYRON COHEN JOHN N. HAZARD

LORI F. DAMROSCH LOUIS HENKIN

E. ALLAN FARNSWORTH OSCAR SCHACHTER

RICHARD N. GARDNER HANS SMIT

WALTER GELLHORN RALPH WANG

HARVEY J. GOLDSCHMID MICHAEL K. YOUNG

MADELEINE ZELIN



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.

The student editorial staff of 1990-1991 recognizes with gratitude
the contributions of the 1989-1990 staff, which have made possible the
publication of this second Taiwan symposium issue. Members of the
1989-1990 staff are as follows:

Managing Editors
CHARLOTTE HART

MIAH LEVY

Articles Editors
JAN SHELBURNE

ANDREA WEINSTEIN

Notes Editors
KAREN FUNKHOUSER
PIYASENA PERERA

Financial Editor
JUSTIN SHRENGER

ANDREW CASE
CHEN YAN
PATRICK CASSIDY
PHILLIP CHR1rITON
Avi GOLDSTEIN
CLINT HANNI
LiLi
Li XIAojiA

Translations Editors
ELIZABETH Koo
ZHANG CHUANPING

Book Review Editor
MICHAEL BENNETr

Symposium Editor
DAN SULLIVAN

Publicity Editor
JONATHAN Ross

Editors
KELLY MYERS

AMBER NEE
LAURA STRAUSFELD
JiNG-KAI SYz
STEVE TORONTO

JENNIFER WHITE
ZHU HE