This book examines Chinese workers' experiences and shows how disenchantment with the legal system drives workers from the courtroom to the streets.

Provides an intra-Asia comparative perspective of authoritarian legality, with a focus on formation, development, transition and post-transition stages.

Using interviews, newspaper articles, online texts, official documents, and national surveys, Lei shows that the development of the public sphere in China has p

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 r

A collection of essays exploring whether a distinctive Chinese model for law and economic development exists.