Ownership of Trust Property in China

Zhen Meng is both a lecturer at the Department of Law, School of Intellectual Property, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, and a researcher at the Intellectual Property Development & Research Center of Jiangsu, China. She holds an LLD from the Graduate School of Law in Kyushu University, Japan, and an LLM and LLB from China University of Political Science and Law. Her research has focused on civil law, commercial law, and Intellectual property law, particularly trust law. Current publications: Should China clarify the ownership of trust assets? A social network perspective. Trusts & Trustees 21(5) 2015, pp. 492–500; Legal certainty and trusts in China (in Fenwick and Wrbka eds. Legal certainty in a contemporary context, 2016) .

• 1  Introduction.- 2Trust Law of China and its Uncertainty Regarding the Location of Ownership of Trust Property.- 3 “Dual Ownership” vs. “Absolute Ownership”: A Comparative Analysis.- 4 Social Capital, Trust, and Guanxi.- 5 An Empirical Study on China Trust Industry: Methods.- 6 Current Trust Industry in China: A Dense Network.- 7 The Chinese Trust Industry in the Near Future Towards A Sparse Network: From Guanxi to Institutionalized Trust? .- 8 Conclusion.- Appendices I–III.