China''s Legal Awakening ISBN: 9789882200654 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Hong Kong University Press, HKU Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Law reform; Criminal justice Administration of;
This book illustrates - through the analysis of more than two hundred criminal cases selected from Minzhu yu fazhi (Democracy and the Legal System) in the period 1979-89 - that the establishment of a formal criminal justice system and the development of an embryonic socialist theory of law in China reflect a genuine and widespread legal awakening.