Tradition of the Law and Law of the Tradition: Law, State, and Social Control in China

by Xin Ren

Traditionally, social theorists in the West have structured models of state social control according to the tenet that socialization is accomplished by means of external controls on behavior: undesirable actions are punished and desirable actions result either in material reward or a simple respite from the oppressive attentions of an authoritarian state. In this volume, the author presents the tradition of law in China as an exception to the Western...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313290962
• ISBN13: 9780313290961
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"