Modern Chinese Real Estate Law

Gregory M. Stein is the Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he specializes in property law. His publications include A Practical Guide to Commercial Real Estate Transactions: From Contract to Closing (American Bar Association, 2001, 2nd edition 2008).

Part I Introduction; Chapter 1 The Excitement of Modern China; Chapter 2 Contrasting China with the West: Background History, Preliminary Observations, and Conclusions; Part II The Operation of China’s Real Estate Market; Chapter 3 The Land Use Right: Owning the Right to Use Land Without Owning the Land; Chapter 4 Ownership Entities: Who Owns Land, and How Do They Own It?; Chapter 5 Choosing Where to Build: The Private Market and Government Pressure; Chapter 6 Demolishing Existing Structures, Relocating Current Residents; Chapter 7 Lenders and Loans: Where Does All the Money Come From?; Chapter 8 Preselling and Reselling of Residential Units; Chapter 9 Commercial Construction and Commercial Leasing; Chapter 10 Infrastructure: Building and Paying for Roads, Bridges, Subways, and Airports; Part III Law and Development in China; Chapter 11 China’s Other “Other Path”: Confounding the Predictions of Development Economics; Chapter 12 Harmonizing Law and Development Theory with China’s Actual Progress; Part IV Conclusion; Chapter 13 Will the Miracle Continue?;