The Chinese Constitution: A Reference Site
Mar 17th, 2008 by trevelyan
With nothing else newsworthy anywhere else in the country, Xinhua appears to have dispatched its entire workforce to Beijing to crank out articles like this, this, this, this, this, this and this about the 两会. This has made NewsinChinese possibly the most boring site on the Internet. Great reading for those looking to polish up their own Chinese resume though.
A better place to spend some quality time is at Howard Lee’s new site on the Chinese constitution. Howard is a lawyer-in-training in San Francisco and his site offers a fantastic annotated/edited version of the Chinese constitution accompanied by its official translation. Don’t be fooled by page title, the lion’s share of the work here has been done by Howard, who spent significant time editing dictionary entries and adding new content to help Adso get better at parsing legal terminology.
The site is definitely worth a visit. As someone who used to translate real estate contracts, I know that Howard’s work will be appreciated by those in the field who use Adso as a translation support tool too.
Thanks, Adsotrans, for the introduction. Currently the General Principles of the Civil Law is up on the site. Its not the Constitution but according to Chinese lawyers and law students I have talked to the General Principles is the main body of law that all of China’s other laws derive from. I plan on putting up the new Antitrust law that is coming into effect on August of this year. After that it will be copyright, trademark, and patent laws.
Thanks to adsotrans for making the reading and translation a lot easier!