Professor Tong Zhiwei proposes that right and power are ultimately a unified entity which can be named "faquan" and the purpose of law should be to establish a balance faquan structure and to promote its preservation and proliferation.

Tong Zhiwei, Ph.D in Law (1994, Wuhan University), is Professor of Law at East China University of Political Science and Law. He is president of the Shanghai Constitutional Law Society and one the vice presidents of  China Constitutional Law Society. He has published many articles and books on jurisprudence and constitutional law, including Constitutional Reforms in Contemporary China (City University of Hong Kong Press, 2016), Forms of State Structure (Peking University Press, second edition, 2015), and Right, Power, and Faquanism: A Practical Legal Theory from Contemporary China (Brill 2018).