Selected Legal Documents of Revolutionary Base Areas (vol. I, II, III)

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Han Yanlong and Chang Zhaoru (eds.), Selected Legal Documents of Revolutionary Base Areas (vol. I, II, III), Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2013.

The compilation of this book began in the 1960s, but the work was soon suspended as result of the influence of the ultra leftist ideology. In late 1970s, with the carrying out of the nation-wide debate on the question of “whether practice is the only criterion for testing truth” and the emancipation of the mind in the academic circle, the compilation of this book restarted after over a decade’s suspension. The three-volume book collects the laws, decrees, orders, instructions, rules and regulations promulgated by the Communist Party of China and the governments of revolutionary base areas, as well as the reports, explanations and work reports issued by the legislative and judicial organs of revolutionary base areas on the adoption, implementation and interpretation of these documents during the periods of the Second Revolutionary Civil War (1927-1937), the War of Resistance Against Japan (1937-1945), and the War of Liberation (1945-1949). The book is divided into eight parts: Part I. Constitutional Documents; Part II. Election Law; Part III. Organic Laws of Organs of Political Power; Part IV. Criminal Laws; Part V. Procedural Law; Part VI. Land Law; Part VII. Labor Law; and Part VIII. Marriage Law.