{"product_id":"engaging-the-law-in-china-9780804750486","title":"Engaging the Law in China","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book explores legal mobilization, culture, and institutions in contemporary China from a perspective informed by 'law and society' scholarship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This remarkable, perspective-setting study of the evolutions in Chinese law and its place in a changing society [is] highly beneficial. One can only strongly encourage this type of research, whose multidisciplinary ambitions allow us to grasp, if not in its entirety, at least certain important aspects of a process that tends to make the law the best ally of an emerging social justice.\"—\u003ci\u003eChina Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEngaging the Law in China\u003c\/i\u003e successfully spans the gap between different approaches to Chinese legal studies, and I hope we will see more along this line in the future. This book is highly recommended\"—\u003ci\u003eThe China Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is an intrepid and worthy entry into the literature examining China's rapidly developing legal institutions, and especially laudable as a precedent for future investigations into the topic.\"\u003ci\u003eCambridge Law Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Their Diamant, Lubman, OBrien insights into the roles played by regulators, mediators, arbitrators, police, prosecutors, judges, legislators, and other local government and Communist Party officials leave no doubt that, however limited, imperfect and distinctive Chinas legal processes may be, there is a legal system at work in the P.R.C. and it is ever more important to the polity, economy and society of 1.3 billion people.\"—\u003ci\u003eFar Eastern Economic Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEngaging the Law in China\u003c\/i\u003e heralds a rich set of findings in a promising field of study. It not only serves as an important benchmark for future research on the law in contemporary China but also for studies of Chinese state-society relations, past and present. This volume will make an important addition to any course considering these issues.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe China Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[T]his book is a valuable contribution to research on contemporary China. It can and should be read by individuals with a specific interest in Chinese legal studies, as well as by those with a general interest in state-society relations in the Chinese context.\"—\u003ci\u003ePerspectives on Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This important book offers glimpses of this tension between state instrumentalism and social idealism and will be an invaluable addition to the growing literature on Chinese law.\"—\u003ci\u003ePacific Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By exploring the means through which Chinese law is used by diverse groups against a multitude of parties, the authors of this work offer a refreshing outlook on the advancement of citizen's rights in China.\"—\u003ci\u003eChina Review International\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book truly stands alone as most of its chapters are not written by scholars with legal training but by social scientists for whom legal issues are at the core of the fieldwork.\"—\u003ci\u003eChinese Cross Currents\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Part I. Introduction  1. Law and Society in the People's Republic of China  Neil J. Diamant, Stanley B. Lubman, Kevin J. O'Brien  Part II. Legal Mobilization and Culture  2. Suing the Local State: Administrative Litigation in Rural China  Kevin J. O'Brien and Lianjiang Li  3. \"Use the Law as Your Weapon\"! The Rule of Law and Labor Conflict in the PRC  Mary E. Gallagher  4. One Law, Two Interpretations: Mobilizing the Labor Law in Arbitration Committees and in Letters and Visits Bureaus  Isabelle Thireau and Hua Linshan  5. What's in a Law?: China's Pension Reform and its Discontents  Mark W. Frazier  6. Hollow Glory: The Politics of Rights and Identity among PRC Veterans in the 1950s  Neil J. Diamant  Part III. Legal Institutions  7. Shifting Legal and Administrative Goalposts: Chinese Bureaucracies, Foreign Actors and the Evolution of China's Anti-Counterfeiting Regime  Andrew Mertha  8. Rethinking Law Enforcement and Society: Changing Police Analysis of Unrest  Murray Scot Tanner  9. Punishing for Profit: Profitability and Rehabilitation in a Laojiao Institution  H. L. Fu        Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Justice, Administration of China","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405559767383,"sku":"9780804750486","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804750486.jpg?v=1730492833","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/engaging-the-law-in-china-9780804750486","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}