Using English-Language Contracts in China
Ken Adams of the blog Adams on Contract Drafting has published online a question-and-answer exchange with the China Law Blog on the role that English-language contracts play in Chinese commercial life.
His Q&A exchange is with Steve Dickinson and Dan Harris.
The discussion covers such topics as: which language controls in a dual-language contract, how Chinese lawyers respond to English-language prose in contracts, whether Chinese lawyers draft contracts in English, contract provisions that make no sense in China, and other hot-button provisions.