Language and law sources of systemic vagueness and ambiguous authority in Chinese statutory language

The Limits of the Rule of Law in China

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 221-270

  Ross, Claudia ^a   Ross, Lester ^b  

^a Holy Cross College   (United States)

^b Wharton and Garrison ^*  (United States)

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