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33 Liverpool L. Rev. 1 (2012)

handle is hein.journals/lvplr33 and id is 1 raw text is: Liverpool Law Rev (2012) 33:1-10
DOI 10.1007/s10991-012-9111-y
Introduction: Is it Possible to Produce Gender/Sexual
Justice in Greater China and Singapore?
Man-Chung Chiu
Published online: 7 April 2012
C Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Abstract In the article, the author argues that since injustice still exists in the
milieu of Gender and Sexuality of Greater China and Singapore; legal reform has to
be introduced. In the age of Globalization, related legal reform can be carried out by
transplanting related law from other jurisdictions, but cautions should be applied
in handling the dynamics/dialogue between indigenous traditions and modernities.
The article also discusses how religion can be facilitated as a platform where
transplantation can happen smoothly.
Keywords    Justice - Gender - Sexuality - Globalization - Transplantation
Religion
This volume seeks to engage the discourses and matrices of law in Greater China
(including mainland China, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong)' and Singapore with
gender/sexual politics. The key question that underlines all articles in this volume is:
Can we produce gender/sexual justice in Greater China and Singapore?
Law in Greater China and Singapore are always used as the machines to produce/
defend rights, including the sexual rights; and it seems substantial improvement in
related law has been made in the last few decades:2 Women's Charter in Singapore
was passed in 1961, and in 2007, Prime Minister Hsien-loong Lee decided that
oral and anal sex conducted between opposite sex would be decriminalized;3
Please note that: Macao is also considered as part of Greater China. For details, please see Harding
(1993).
2 Gu (2010: 8); Zhou (2009: 212).
3 Leong (2010: 586).
MC Chin (E)
Department of Law and Business, Hong Kong Shue Yan University,
10 Wai Tsui Crescent, Braemar Hill Road, North Point, Hong Kong
e-mail: mcchiu@hksyu.edu

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