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  • Justice

    The China Experience

    Edited by Flora Sapio, Susan Trevaskes, Sarah Biddulph, Elisa Nesossi ...
    Claims about a pursuit of justice weave through all periods of China's modern history. But what do authorities mean when they refer to 'justice' and do Chinese citizens interpret justice in the same way as their leaders? This book explores how certain ideas about justice have come to be dominant in Chinese polity and society, and how some conceptions of justice have been rendered more powerful and ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Legal Reforms and Deprivation of Liberty in Contemporary China

    Edited by Elisa Nesossi, Sarah Biddulph, Flora Sapio, Susan Trevaskes ...
    Series series The Rule of Law in China and Comparative Perspectives
    The volume presents an extensive investigation into the process of reforms of detention powers in today’s China and offers an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding the reformist attempts. The chapters in this collection demonstrate that legislative and institutional reforms in this area result from political opportunities - openings and tensions at the central institutional levels of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Sex and Sexuality in China

    Edited by Elaine Jeffreys ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    Elaine Jeffreysexplores the issues of sex and sexuality in a non-Western context by examining debates surrounding the emergence of new sexual behaviours, and the appropriate nature of their regulation, in the People's Republic of China. Commissioned from Western and mainland Chinese scholars of sex and sexuality in China, the chapters in this volume are marked by a diversity of subject material ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Human Rights in China

    A Social Practice in the Shadows of Authoritarianism

    by Eva Pils ...
    Series series China Today
    How can we make sense of human rights in China's authoritarian Party-State system? Eva Pils offers a nuanced account of this contentious area, examining human rights as a set of social practices. Drawing on a wide range of resources including years of interaction with Chinese human rights defenders, Pils discusses what gives rise to systematic human rights violations, what institutional avenues of ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Policing in Taiwan

    From authoritarianism to democracy

    by Liqun Cao, Lanying Huang, Ivan Y. Sun ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
    The police in Taiwan played a critical role in the largely peaceful transition from an authoritarian regime to a democracy. While the temptation to intervene in domestic politics was great, the top-down pressure to maintain a neutral standing facilitated an orderly regime change. This is the first monograph to examine the role of the police as a linkage between the state and civil society during ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Criminal Defense in China

    The Politics of Lawyers at Work

    by Sida Liu, Terence C. Halliday ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    Criminal Defense in China studies empirically the everyday work and political mobilization of defense lawyers in China. It builds upon 329 interviews across China, and other social science methods, to investigate and analyze the interweaving of politics and practice in five segments of the practicing criminal defense bar in China from 2005 to 2015. This book is the first to examine everyday ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Prostitution Scandals in China

    Policing, Media and Society

    by Elaine Jeffreys ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    Prostitution Scandals in China presents an examination of media coverage of prostitution-related scandals in contemporary China. It demonstrates that the subject of prostitution is not only widely debated, but also that these public discussions have ramifications for some of the key social, legal and political issues affecting citizens of the PRC. Further, this book shows how these public ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Chinese Communist Party in Reform

    Edited by Zheng Yongnian, Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    Contrary to the expectations of many people, China's recent economic growth has not led to the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party. In fact, the Party has recently carried out a peaceful and orderly transition to the so-called fourth generation of leadership, has revitalised itself, and created a new, younger and better trained cadre corps. Despite this successful transformation, there ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Contested Citizenship in East Asia

    Developmental Politics, National Unity, and Globalization

    Edited by Kyung-Sup Chang, Bryan Turner ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Theories of citizenship from the West – pre-eminently those by T.H. Marshall – provide only a limited insight into East Asian political history.The Marshallian trajectory – juridical, political and social rights – was not repeated in Asia and the late nineteenth-century debate about liberalism and citizenship among intellectuals in Japan and China was eventually stifled by war, colonialism and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • New Crime in China

    Public Order and Human Rights

    by Ronald Keith, Zhiqiu Lin ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Examining the crimes that have recently been of the greatest concern in China, the authors assess the imbalance between public order and human rights in the way the Chinese legal system deals with crime. The issue of crime is of particular importance, both because current social upheaval in China has greatly contributed to the increase of new crimes, and because there is increasing international ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The China Model

    Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy

    by Daniel A. Bell ...
    How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracyWesterners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and “bad” authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as “political meritocracy.” The China Model ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution

    by Yang Su ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
    The violence of Mao's China is well known, but its extreme form is not. In 1967 and 1968, during the Cultural Revolution, collective killings were widespread in rural China in the form of public execution. Victims included women, children, and the elderly. This book is the first to systematically document and analyze these atrocities, drawing data from local archives, government documents, and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD