Strike Hard! Anti-Crime Campaigns and Chinese Criminal Justice, 1979-1985

by Harold M. Tanner

Book Overview

As it set forth to achieve rapid modernizing economic growth under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, the People's Republic simultaneously undertook to reform China's criminal justice system in order to make it more efficient, more accountable to central authority, and better suited to the task of maintaining public order in a changing economic and social environment. Taking a historical approach, this book draws on a wide variety of openly and internally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1885445040
• ISBN13: 9781885445049
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.6" x 6.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher