TY  - JOUR
A1  - Li, Fupeng
T1  - Becoming policy. Cultural translation of the Weimar constitution in China (1919–1949)
T2  - Rechtsgeschichte = Legal history
N2  - During the drafting process from the 1920s to 1940s, the Weimar Constitution (WRV) played a decisive role in shaping Chinese social(-ist) con- stitutions, especially the part related to the social- economic issue. Through the lens of cultural trans- lation, this paper seeks to explain how the WRV was adapted, reinterpreted, and recontextualized throughout several rounds of constitution making in China. By focusing on the roles played by the translators, legislators, and interpreters, this paper discusses how the social rights created by the WRV were translated into the fundamental policy of the 1947 Constitution of the Republic of China. More- over, regarding »policy« as the legal instrument for regulating the social-economic life, and even broader fields, it triggers the modern transforma- tion of Chinese meritocracy and reinforces the national legal tradition depicted in its modern form. To some extent, this case study on cultural translation of constitutional law discloses the mechanism, both temporarily and spatially, for the intercultural communication of the normative information.
KW  - Cultural translation
KW  - Weimar Constitution
KW  - social rights
KW  - fundamental national policy
KW  - comparative history of constitutional law
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51104
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-511044
SN  - 2195-9617
SN  - 1619-4993
N1  - Dieser Beitrag steht unter einer Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
VL  - 27
SP  - 207
EP  - 221
PB  - Max-Planck-Inst. für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte
CY  - Frankfurt, M.
ER  -