COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF ASIAN LAW VOL. 15 FALL 2001 NO.1 CONTENTS ARTICLES CHINESE BANKRUPTCY LAW IN AN EMERGING MARKET ECONOMY: THE SHENZHEN EXPERIENCE CHINESE MORTGAGE LAW: AN AivERICAN PERSPECTIVE Mianchu Zhang & Charles D. Booth Dale A. Whitman COMMENT Is TIBET CHINA'S COLONY?: THE CLAIM OF DEMOGRAPHIC CATASTROPHE BOOK REVIEW Barry Saitman Katherine Wilhelm 135HONG KONG MURDERS ACKNOWLEDGMENT The Columbia Journal ofAsian Law gratefully acknowledges the generous grant from the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law that made the establishment of the Journal possible. EDITOR'S NOTE Published semi-annually under the auspices of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies, the Center for Japanese Legal Studies, and the Center for Korean Legal Studies at the Columbia University School of Law, the Columbia Journal of Asian Law is the successor to the Journal of Chinese Law, which commenced publication in 1987. The Columbia Journal ofAsian Law provides a forum for legal practitioners and scholars from Asia, the United States, and elsewhere to discuss the broad range of issues that relate to law in the countries of Asia. The Columbia Journal of Asian Law welcomes multidisciplinary, historical, and comparative manuscripts, as well as those describing and analyzing aspects of contemporary law and practice. As part of this effort, the Columbia Journal ofAsian Law maintains a World Wide Web site, located at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/asiaweb. The Columbia Journal of Asian Law welcomes your financial support. Contributions can be sent to: Columbia Journal ofAsian Law Columbia Law School 435 West 116 St. New York, NY 10027 asianlaw@law.columbia.edu COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF ASIAN LAW VOL. 15 FALL 2001 NO.1 Board of Directors R. RANDLE EDWARDS JEONG-HO ROH Editor-in-Chief BOONG-KYU LEE Executive Editor LEI Yu Submissions Editor BENJAMIN CURRAN Managing Editor XIN ZHANG Web Editor MATTHEW EASTER ELIZABETH KARPINSKI LAWRENCE Liu Articles Editors MINA KIM CLAN MITSUNAGA DANA WALLACK JIA-D\WAN Ku ANDREW OWENS Editors CHIUSTOPHER BoucHARD ALEXANDER GREEN CATHERINE M. KIDD HWANG LEE ZHENGMING PAN PENG TAN KATHERINE WILHELM BENITO DELFIN THOMAS HALL CHANLER LANGHAM QILI KEvIN STEMP JUNG-HYUN UHM WEN WU MARISA GONDREZ ADILAH JuNID PHUONG ANH LE WILDA LIN MISASHA SUZUKI SETH WHEELER XI ZENG 02_15ColumJAsianL[iii](2001-2002).pdf 05_15ColumJAsianL[vi](2001-2002).pdf