Transforming the Hong Kong Legal Machine

This book examines the law in relation to sexual issues in the context of Hong Kong, and its implications for the global context. It aims to develop a localised 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 formulating corresponding possible 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 synchronise and reorganise plural theoretical components via the lens of localisation. The author investigates theories of justice developed, respectively, by Rawls, Deleuze, Lacan, iek, and from Mahayana Buddhism, as well as (Orthodox) Han-Chinese Daoism. Applying applies this theoretical perspective in analysing different socio-legal issues in post-97 Hong Kong, including transgender rightsto marriage, domestic violence, rape and sexual assault, child sexual abuse, child custody, race, and freedom of information. The book concludes by proposing singular possible strategies, which include desexualization, legal de-ageing and de-informationalization, by which justice(s) can hopefully be reproduced, and questioned. This book is relevant to researchers and students of law, philosophy, sociology, gender studies and cultural studies working on sex-related issues.

Discusses the dialog between law and gender and sexual discrimination in Han-Chinese culture Examines the family and child and anti-discrimination law in Hong Kong Is a pioneering work in considering law in relation to sexual issues in the context of Hong Kong

Auteur
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.

Contenu

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 iekian 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 ChildSubject in Hong Kong Law in Control of Child Sexual Abuse.- Chapter 8: Deterritorializing Sexuality, Act(less)ing Justice: iekian / 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.