JOURNAL OF CHINESE LAW
VOL. 5 SPRING 1991 NO. 1

CONTENTS

ARTICLES

To GET RICH IS PRECARIOUS:
REGULATION OF PRIVATE
ENTERPRISE IN THE PEOPLE'S

REPUBLIC OF CHINA Alison W. Conner 1

FORCE MAJEURE AND RELATED DOCTRINES OF
EXCUSE IN CONTRACT LAW OF THE

PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA Lester Ross 58

"LEGAL PRECEDENTS" WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS
PUBLISHED CASES IN THE GAZETTE OF THE
SUPREME PEOPLE'S COURT Nanping Liu 107

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JOURNAL OF CHINESE LAW
VOL. 5 SPRING 1991 NO. 1

Editor-in-Chief
R. RANDLE EDWARDS

Managing Editors
Li HUANTnNG

STERGIOS THEOLOGIDES

Articles Editors
ANDREW BELL
LEE EDWARDS
PETER GALLAGHER
JEFF KATEMAN
ELLA B. WONG

PERRY BECHKY
ELISABETH BENTEL
STEPHENIE BROWN
HENRY HAIHUA DING

Notes Editors
RICHARD DING
HOWARD JIANG

Editors

Business Editor
PHILLP GREENBERG

RICHARD ELBAUM
LISA GREGORY
RANDALL PEERENBOOM
JAY J. YAN

Board of Advisors
MYRON COHEN
LORI F. DAMROSCH
E. ALLAN FARNSWORTH
RICHARD N. GARDNER
WALTER GELLHORN
HARVEY J. GOLDSCHMID
JOHN N. HAZARD

Louis HENKIN
OSCAR SCHACHTER
HANS Sun
RALPH WANG
MICHAEL K. YOUNG
MADELEINE ZELIN