The Development of Jurisprudence in the New Era

There has been a renaissance in Chinese jurisprudence under thedirection of Deng Xiaoping theory since the discussions on the criteria fortruth, and the determination by the Third Plenary Session of theEleventh Committee of the Chinese Communist Party that freedom ofthought and the search for truth should be guiding principles. In a livelyacademic environment, previously forbidden areas have been opened upfor theoretical study, and theoretical confusions clarified. For example,the equality…