literature Comparative English original

Conceptualizing Corporations and Kinship: Comparative Law and Development Theory in a Chinese Perspective

A historically rich comparative account arguing that Chinese kinship institutions performed corporation-like functions, challenging simple transplant narratives about modern company law.

Open source

Use It For

Use this to complicate the claim that corporate personality simply arrived in China as a Western transplant.

Teaching Notes

The article is especially useful in week one because it pushes students to ask what counts as a corporation and who gets to decide.