Rural Land Takings Law in Modern China Origin and Evolution

Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Defining Land Taking in China -- 1.2 Massive Rural Land Expropriation in Contemporary China -- 1.3 Making Sense of China's Rural Land Expropriation Law -- 1.4 Transition Paradigm -- 1.5 Theme, Thesis and Structure of the Book -- 2 A Broken Constitutional Promise: Diagnoses and Prescriptions -- 2.1 Public Interest Prerequisite: Triple Challenge -- 2.2 Expropriation Compensation: Unjust and Unfair -- 2.3 Prescriptions: Toward the Chinese Fifth Amendment -- 3 Limited Reform: Symptoms and Causes -- 3.1 Reform and Its Limitations -- 3.2 Land Finance as the Explanation -- 4 Original Constitutional Takings Clause: Origin, Meaning and Purpose -- 4.1 Origin of Original Constitutional Takings Clause -- 4.2 Parsing the Original Constitutional Takings Clause -- 4.3 Purpose of Original Constitutional Takings Clause -- 4.4 The Transition Paradigm Reconsidered -- 5 Theoretical Foundations of Land Takings Power: Competing Traditions and Common Legacy -- 5.1 Land Nationalization: A Tale of Two Traditions -- 5.2 Land Expropriation: From Classical Liberalism to Socialized Property -- 5.3 Common Legacy of Competing Theories -- 6 The 1982 Constitutional Takings Clause Re-examined: New Wine in an Old Bottle -- 6.1 "Urban Land Is Owned by the State": A Reinterpretation -- 6.2 Forbidding Voluntary Land Transaction -- 6.3 Rational Use of Land -- 6.4 Parsing the 1982 Takings Clause: Nature and Purpose -- 7 Rural Land Expropriation Law in the Reform Era: A Story of Continuity -- 7.1 Structural Continuity -- 7.2 Functional Continuity -- 7.3 Normative Continuity -- 7.4 Foundational Continuity -- 7.5 Persistent Non-justiciability of Expropriation Decisions -- 8 Conclusion