Disputes Resolution in Urban Communities in Contemporary China

Jieren Hu is an Associate Professor in the Law School at Tongji University. She is also the Research Fellow in the Center for Social Governance at Fudan University and the Visiting Scholar in the Center for China Studies at UC Berkeley. She got her Ph.D. at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2009. Her major researches focus on dispute resolution, social governance, and state–church relations in Mainland China. She has published quite a number of books, journal papers including those in Asian Survey, Journal of Contemporary China, China Information, etc., and in many Chinese academic journals. In addition to academics, she is the “double-thousand” expert nominated by the State Council of China, the expert mediator of the Second Intermediary Court in Shanghai, and the Member of Hong Kong and Macao Law Association and Shanghai Law Society.

Preface.- Urban Community Conflict and Dispute Resolution.- Methodology.- Theories of Conflict Resolution and The Model of Conflict Resolution.- History and Development of Dispute Resolution in China.- Case Analysis—Three Cases in Urban Communities in Shanghai .- State-society Cooperation in Urban Community Dispute Resolution.- The Means and Skills of Mediation and Dispute Resolution.- Conclusion: Making Harmonious Community Work.- Appendix.- Epilogue.