Personality Rights in China’s New Civil Code

A Response to Increasing Awareness of Rights in an Era of Evolving Technology

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11630748
AutoresLiming Wang (0000-0002-2250-7991, School of Law, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China), Bingwan Xiong (0000-0002-3111-6853, School of Law, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen47
Número6
Páginas703-739
Fecha de publicación2020-12-23
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaModern China (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0097-7004 • E-ISSN: 1552-6836
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0097700420977826
OpenAlexW3117559776
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas25

This article explores and assesses the significance of the adoption of a separate part (or, book 编) on personality rights in China’s new Civil Code. We argue that there are profound socioeconomic meanings underlying the technical changes in the classic structure of the civil codes in civil law tradition. On one hand, the stand-alone part on personality rights is the fruit and embodiment of the rising rights consciousness of personality in Chinese civil society, which has been largely unexplored in existing China studies. On the other hand, the part provides a new legislative model to comprehensively tackle the pervasive technological challenges to the protection of personal spheres, which is entangled with the rising rights consciousness over personality in China. Yet, the robustness of the acknowledgment of personality rights in this special part in promoting the protection of such rights remains to be tested in future court judgments

China · Civil code · Civil rights · Consciousness · Human rights · Law and economics · Legislature · Personality · Political science · Sociology · Conflict of Laws and Jurisdiction · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Legal principles and applications · Psychology · Social Psychology