The Changing Chinese Legal System, 1978-Present: Centralization of Power and Rationalization of the Legal System

by Bin Liang

This groundbreaking book examines the changing Chinese legal system since 1978. In addition to historical analyses of changes at the economic, political-legal, and social levels, Liang gives special attention to crime and punishment functions of the legal system, and the current judicial system based on field research, i.e., court observations in both Beijing and Chengdu. The court system has been in a process of systemization, both internally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415541034
• ISBN13: 9780415541039
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 250 Pages