Wall Street Journal, October 25, 2011 by Stanley Lubman
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/10/25/a-glimpse-into-chinese-law-making/
Building a legal system is replete with deliberation over technicalities in any nation, but the enterprise is especially difficult in a huge country under authoritarian single-party rule, with traditions inconsistent with the rule of law, and which is undergoing dramatic social change.