Mauro Bussani is Full Professor of Comparative Law, Law Department, Trieste University, Trieste, Italy, and Adjunct Professor, Law School, University of Macau, Macau, SAR of the People’s Republic of China.Ivan Cardillo is Adjunct Professor, chair of Chinese Law, Trento University Law School, Italy; Adjunct Professor, China University of Political Science and Law, People’s Republic of China; Senior Advisor, ‘Faren’ Think Tank, Chinese Government Ministry of Justice; and Director of the Institute of Chinese Law, Italy.Marta Infantino is Associate Professor of Comparative Law, Department of Political Science, Trieste University, Trieste, Italy.Xue Jun is Full Professor, Peking University Law School, Beijing, People’s Republic of China.

• Note on ContributorsPart 1The Overall Framework of the Chinese Civil Code1 The Chinese Civil Code in Comparative PerspectiveMauro Bussani and Marta Infantino2 The Chinese Way to the Civil CodeIvan Cardillo3 Highlighting the Significance of the Chinese Civil Code王利明 Wang LimingPart 2The Inner Contents of the Chinese Civil Code4 The General Part of the Civil Code of the prc薛军Xue Jun5 Comparative Perspectives on the General Part of the Chinese Civil CodePascal Pichonnaz6 Reshaping Chinese Real Right Law through the New Chinese Civil Code朱晓喆Zhu Xiaozhe7 The New Chinese Civil Code: Outer PerspectivesSjef van Erp8 An Introduction to the Book on Contracts of the Civil Code of the prcHan Shiyuan9 Comparative Perspectives on the Book on ContractsUmberto Celli Jr and Ligia Espolaor Veronese10 Ambitious Goals for the Book on Personality Rights of the Chinese Civil Code张家勇Zhang Jiayong11 Comparative Perspectives on the Book on Personality RightsKen Oliphant12 Formation of the Book of Marriage and Family of Chinese Civil Code, from a Historical Perspective: A Mixture of more Endogenous Resources and less Elements Transplanted from other Civil Law Countries徐涤宇Xu Diyu13 Marriage and Family in the Civil Code of the prcNicoletta Patti and Antonello Miranda14 The Innovations of Succession Part in the Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China汪洋Wang Yang and 尹思雨Yin Siyu15 Comparative Perspectives on the Book on InheritanceGrzegorz J. Blicharz16 The Structure and Contents of the Book on Tort Liability of the Chinese Civil Code方新军Fang Xinjun17 A Swiss Perspective on the Book on Tort Liability of the Chinese Civil CodeFranz WerroPart 3The Outer Significance of the Chinese Civil Code18 The Significance of the Chinese Civil Code in the Special Administrative Regions of Macao and Hong KongTong Io Cheng19 Legal Musings about Environmental Jurisprudence in the Civil Code of China and India: Peeking through a Tortious Liability LensManjeri Subin Sunder Raj and Ujal Kumar Mookherjee20 The 2020 Chinese Civil CodeWilliam E. Butler21 The Significance of the Chinese Civil Code in EuropeMarie Goré22 The Significance of the Chinese Civil Code in AfricaSalvatore Mancuso23 ‘Obvious Unfairness’ and ‘Unconscionability’James Gordley and Hao JiangExpanded Table of ContentsIndex