Courts and Criminal Justice in Contemporary

This book is about law on display in Chinese courts. As the first sustained study of criminal trials, rallies, and campaigns in Chinese courts, this book is an account of how law and punishment is constructed and represented both in practice and in rhetoric.

Susan Trevaskes is a research fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, Australia

Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Politics and Authority-Building in Criminal Court Work	p. 11
Courts on Trial	p. 29
Expressive Punishment: The Court Sentencing Rally	p. 59
The Rise of the Anti-Crime Campaign in Post-Mao Court Work	p. 81
Striking Hard: The Politics of Law and Order	p. 115
Chop-Suey Justice	p. 145
Courts on the Campaign Path in the Twenty-First Century	p. 173
Conclusion: Criminal Court Work Then and Now	p. 197
Glossary of Chinese Terms	p. 207
Selected Bibliography	p. 209
Index	p. 217
About the Author	p. 227
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