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The Role of the Shareholders' Meeting's Reserve Power in Corporate Governance in China

Argues that China's legal representative is better understood as an agent and asks when shareholders' meeting reserve power can operate if ordinary company organs fail.

Brief English Introduction

Qu examines what happens when the legal representative or board cannot effectively act for the company. The article is important because it rejects a purely organ-based account of the legal representative and supports an agency understanding that leaves room for shareholder meeting reserve power in governance breakdowns.

Use It For

Use it as an English-language theoretical bridge between Chinese legal representative doctrine and common-law debates about residual shareholder power.

Teaching Notes

Ask students whether shareholders should ever be able to represent the company directly when the board and legal representative are disabled.