Quanxi Gao, Professor of Law; Dean, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, BeiHang University. B.A., Nanjing Normal University, 1983; Master of Philosophy, Jilin University,1985; Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 1988. From Lecturer, Associate Professor to Professor of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 1989-2007. Professor of Law, BeiHang University Law School since 2007; Dean of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences since2010. Books include On Self Consciousness(1990); Legal Order and Liberal Justice(2004); Political Philosophy of David Hume(2004); On Recht by Mutual Recognition(2005); Five Treatises on Modern Politics(2008); From Constitutional Politics to Normal Politics(2009); Constitutional Moment(2011), etc. Wei Zhang, Prosecutor of Beijing Chaoyang District People s Prosecutors Office. LL.B, Zhengzhou University Law School, 2006; LL.M, Zhengzhou University Law School, 2009; Ph.D in Management, BeiHang University, 2012 Feilong Tian, Assistant Professor of the Institute for Advance Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, BeiHang University. LL.B, Nanjing University Law School, 2006; LL.M, Peking University Law School, 2008; J.S.D., Peking University Law School, 2012. Leslie Wright Fellow, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong, 2014-2015.

Shows the rise of a new academic school called political constitutionalists

Studies rule of law in China through the "political" path rather than just the "legal" path

Uses proper methodology which fits the public law studies during the transitional times very well

¿Preface.- Inception: from Hundred Days Reform to Xinhai Revolution.- Failed Legacy: The Early Days of the New Republic.- Rule by the Party: Party Rule, Tutelage and Transformation towards A Modern Legal System.- Revolutionary Legal System: from Common Program to 1975 Constitution.- Transformation to Daily Routine: Reform and Governance.- Review and Outlook.