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John haley william r orthwein distinguished professor of law emeritus washington university school of law the beijing consensus has been a co production of left critics of the market oriented washington consensus beijings insecure authoritarian leadership and pundits eager for a sound bite to capture chinas complex political economy. The beijing consensus how china has changed western ideas of law and economic development edited by weitseng chen fills this gap the volume is composed of a series of articles dealing with the interrelation between legal and economic development in chinese reform. In the beijing consensus scholars turn their collective attention to answer this basic but seemingly under explored question as china rises higher in its global standing advancing debates on alternative development programs with a particular focus on social and political contexts this book demonstrates that essentially no model exists. In this book a distinguished international group of law and development scholars decomposes the idea of a beijing consensus by examining in detail the evolution of a number of areas of law in china including tax law property law corporate law securities law and anticorruption law with a view to addressing three key questions how distinctive is the development trajectory of chinas legal system in these areas as compared to other legal systems. Is there a distinctive chinese model for law and economic development in the beijing consensus scholars turn their collective attention to answer this basic but seemingly under explored question as china rises higher in its global standing advancing debates on alternative development programs