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The Structure of China's Conflicts Law: New Developments of the Rules on Special Commercial Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2009

Huang Jin
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After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, China abrogated all unequal treaties imposed on it by foreign countries and abolished every illegal extra-territoriality enjoyed by foreigners in China, which has created optimal conditions for the country to increase its exchanges with foreign countries independently and to begin to establish an efficient and effective conflicts law system.1 For nearly three decades, however, for various reasons China's legislative bodies did not pay sufficient attention to developing conflicts law and the academic study of the subject in China was protracted. Except for a few bilateral treaties,2 which contained a few conflict rules, one could hardly find similar provisions in the other international treaties concluded or acceded to by China. Conflict rules were absent in domestic legislation except a few rules to be found in unopened regulations and documents. After 1978, with the development of an open-door policy toward the outside world, China's domestic legislation of conflicts law was finally placed on the agenda of the domestic legislation in 1983.

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Netherlands International Law Review , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , August 1998 , pp. 188 - 207
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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press 1998

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2. For example, Art. 22 of Consular Treaty between the People's Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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68. Idem.

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77. Ibid., at p. 274.

78. Ibid., at p. 232; see Art. 2 of the Convention for the Settlement of Certain Conflicts of Laws in Connection with Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes (concluded on 7 June 1930 at Geneva) and Art. 2 of the Convention for the Settlement of Certain Conflicts of Laws in Connection with Cheques (concluded on 19 March 1931 at Geneva).

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82. Ibid., at p. 260.

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85. Ibid., at pp. 236–237, 274.

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