TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Contributors............................................................................................... vii

Table of Cases.......................................................................................................

Table of National Legislation............................................................................... xiii

Table of International Materials............................................................................ xli

Introduction............................................................................................................ 1

Ngoc Son Bui and Mara Malagodi

1. Japan’s Post-War Constitution: ‘Imposed’ Constitution or Hybrid

between Global and Local Stakeholders?........................................................ 7

Akiko Ejima

2. Founding and/or Refounding: South Korea’s 1948 Constitution................... 33

Jeong-In Yun

3. The Longest Process: Making the 1946 Constitution of the Republic

of China........................................................................................................ 55

Zhaoxin Jiang

4. The Making of China’s 1982 Constitution..................................................... 79

Ryan Martinez Mitchell

5. The Making of the Hong Kong Basic Law..................................................... 99

Pui-yin Lo

6. North Korean Cultural Revolution: Reading Culture in the 1972

Constitution................................................................................................. 117

Immanuel Kim

7. The Making of the 1992 Mongolian Constitution......................................... 137

Gunbileg Boldbaatar

8. The Making of (Anti-)Colonial Constitution: The Indonesian 1945

Constitution.................................................................................................

Abdurrachman Satrio

9. Constitution-Making and Autochthony: The Constitution

of the Federation of Malaya 1957............................................................... 175

Andrew Harding

10. A Better Command of Our Own Separate Destiny’: Singapore’s 1965 Constitution and Stewarding the Transition to a New Constitutional

Order.......................................................................................................... 197

Eugene KB Tan

11. The Making of the 1987 Philippine Constitution........................................ 223

Bryan Dennis G Tiojanco

12. The Making of Cambodia’s 1993 Constitution........................................... 247

Ratana Taing

13. State-Owned Enterprises in Vietnam’s 2013 Constitution........................... 279

Trang (Mae) Nguyen

14. Democratic Facade, a Military Heart, and the Flawed Nature of

Myanmar’s 2008 Constitution.................................................................... 293

Jonathan Liljeblad

15. Thailand’s Competing Notions of Constituent Power: The Making

of the 2017 Constitution in the Binary-Star Scenario................................... 311

Rawin Leelapatana

16. Justice as Equity and the Making of the Indian Constitution...................... 337

Mithi Mukherjee

17. Making and Unmaking the Constitution of Bangladesh............................. 363

M Jashim Ali Chowdhury

18. The Failure of Transformative Constitution-Making in Sri Lanka............... 383

Mario Gomez

19. Post-Conflict Constitution-Making in Nepal and the Limits of

Constituent Assemblies................................................................................ 409

Mara Malagodi

Conclusion: Comparative Constitution-Making in Asia..................................... 429

Ngoc Son Bui

Index.................................................................................................................. 445