Transforming the Hong Kong Legal Machine

ISBN-13: 9789811912740 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Man-Chung Chiu

Opis

This book examines the law in relation to how it has responded to sexual and gender issues in the context of Hong Kong, and addresses the implications of those responses for the global context. It aims to develop a localized theory of justice which enables the analysis of multiple socio-legal issues arising in Hong Kong, a predominantly Han-Chinese society in Greater China, while also offering formulations for  corresponding solutions. Unlike other books on Hong Kong jurisprudence and socio-legal studies, this book not only compares and contrasts different theories of justice, but also attempts to generate a philosophical perspective which can synchronize and re-organize a range of theoretical components via the lens of localization. The author investigates theories of justice developed, respectively, by Rawls, Deleuze, Lacan, Žižek and from the perspective of Mahāyāna Buddhism, as well as (Orthodox) Han-Chinese Confucianism and Daoism. The book applies these theoretical perspectives in analyzing different socio-legal issues in post-97 Hong Kong, including transgender rights to marriage, domestic violence, sexual assault, child sexual abuse and race. The book concludes by proposing singular possible strategies, which include Degenderization, Desexualization, De-ageing, by which justice(s) can hopefully be re-manufactured and challenged. This book is relevant to researchers and students of law, philosophy, sociology, gender studies and cultural studies. 

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Beyond Colonialism: Osmotic Restruction of Gender / Sexual Justice in Hong Kong.- Chapter 2: De / Sexing Fa / Law: Development of an Indigenous Legal Theory of Sexual Justice in Hong Kong.-  Chapter 3: Beyond Globalization and Localization: Articulating a Theory of Justice in Han-Chinese Culture.-  Part 2: Becoming Justice, Desiring Transformation.- Chapter 4: Simularizing Vijnana and Desire, Repeating Yi / Justice: Transplanting Deleuzean Becoming into the Machine of Hong Kong Anti-Domestic Violence Law.-  Chapter 5: Desiring Justce, Acting Jnana: Transforming the Legal Transsexual Fantasy from the Perspectives of Žižekian and Mahayana Buddhist Theory.-  Chapter 6: De-aging Family Law: Re-engineering the Children-Adult / Parents Machine.-  Part 3. Desexualizing Law, De-aging Subjects.- Chapter 7: Confession of Law? A Critical Perspective on the Production of the Child Subject in Hong Kong Law in Control of Child Sexual Abuse.-  Chapter 8: Deterritorializing Sexuality, Act(less)ing Justice: Žižekian / Deleuzean / Lao Zi’s Perspectives on Hong Kong’s Rape Law Reform.-  Part 4. Undesiring Control, Respecting Multiplicities.-  Chapter 9: Un/Controlling Desire, Becoming Others: Negotiating Justice in the Hong Kong Milieu of Mainland Pregnant Women Influx.-  Chapter 10. Un/Desiring Data: Deinformatizing Human Subjects:Decontrolling the Individual in the Age of Internet.-  Prologue.

O autorze

Chiu Man-Chung is currently Tony Yen Professor of Law at Beijing Normal University and Distinguished Professor of Law at Hangzhou Normal University. He is also currently a member of the Hong Kong Equal Opportunities Commission.