Bücher der Reihe Asia in the New Millennium

The world was watching when footage of the "tank man" - the lone Chinese citizen blocking the passage of a column of tanks during the brutal 1989 crackdown on protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square - first appeared in the media.

China's rapid socioeconomic transformation of the past twenty years has led to dramatic changes in its judicial system and legal practices. Modern Chinese Legal Reform is designed as a legal and political research tool to help English-speaking scholars interpret the many recent changes to China's legal system.