Mark Jia (Georgetown University Law Center) has posted China's Constitutional Moment (Constitutional Moments in 21st Century Asia, edited by Albert H.Y. Chen and Kevin Y.L. Tan (forthcoming)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This chapter surveys Chinese constitutional developments in the first quarter of the twenty-first century. This period corresponds roughly with the tenure of Hu Jintao (2002-12) and Xi Jinping (2012-present) as leaders of the Communist Party of China. No moment in the Hu era can be described as constitutionally transformative. At most, there arose during this time a series of unrealized constitutional moments in which societal actors largely failed to effect major change. The ascension of Xi, however, marked the beginning of constitutional rupture. Xi’s congoing consolidation of Chinese governance into a centralized party-state dictatorship is the closest China has recently come to a constitutional moment, understood here as a punctuation of an earlier equilibrium.