scholarly journals A Study of Cohesion in the Chinese Legal Text: Based on Criminal Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 1709-1716
Author(s):  
Shifang Li ◽  
Yifan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Perspective View ◽  
Legal Text ◽  
Lexical Cohesion ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Text Quality ◽  
Criminal Procedure Law ◽  
Cohesion Theory

This study analyzes the textual cohesion of Criminal Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China from the perspective view of Cohesion Theory. According to the data analysis, the study indicates that, in this legal text, the means of cohesion occurs totally 792 times, among which grammatical cohesion takes a large proportion, that is, 83.9%, while lexical cohesion takes the ration of 16.1%. In the lexical cohesion, the repetition is used much more frequently, followed by the means of hyponymy/meronymy, synonymy/antonymy and collocation, taking the ratio of 0.8%, 0.5% and 0.4% respectively. Thus, we can know from the statistics that cohesion is an important feature of the Chinese legal text. It connects the syntactic grammar and the lexicons into together closely in the Chinese legal Articles. Therefore, the paper points out that a proper understanding of the cohesive devices in the Chinese legal text is significant to legal draftsmen and social scientists in the field of language and the law, for they might improve the text quality of their work with it.

Ensuring the Rights and Legal Interests of the Victim when Checking the Crime Report: A Comparative Legal Analysis of the Criminal Procedure Codes of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China

2021 ◽  
pp. 128-133
Author(s):  
Irina G. Smirnova ◽  
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Ekaterina V. Alekseeva ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Procedure Code ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Procedure Codes

The article presents a comparative legal analysis of the norms of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation and the Criminal Procedure Code of the People’s Republic of China, which regulate the rights and powers of the victim within the framework of the stage of initiating a criminal case. The authors highlight several significant differences in the legal regulation of this issue. The differences are: the obligation to comply with the rules of jurisdiction in China at the stage of filing a statement of a crime, which is not required under the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation; compulsory fingerprinting of a person when filing a crime report with a public security agency implemented in China; the existence of several types of preliminary checks (the list of activities carried out as part of these checks in China is open); intensive development of IT technologies and their introduction into the life of society, including for the fight against crime and ensuring law and order in society, in China.

Criminal Justice in the People's Republic of China: A Selective Annotated Bibliography of Western Language Commentaries

1980 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-114
Author(s):  
Timothy Kearley
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Annotated Bibliography ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Considerable Time ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
People's Congress

On July 1, 1979, during the Second Session of the Fifth National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (PRC), seven important laws were passed. Among these new laws were complete codes of criminal law and criminal procedure.The approval of these laws—particularly the codes of criminal law and procedure—is, to anyone with more than a casual interest in the PRC's legal system, an act of great significance. The Chinese themselves certainly view this event as being quite important and have devoted considerable time and effort to propagandizing its meaning for their society.

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