Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Drawing on hundreds of newly released judicial archives and court cases, this book analyzes the communist judicial system in China from its ...

Given the breadth and complexity of his topic, Sean McMeekin’s narrative is vividly told and illuminated by well-chosen detail and should appeal to the general reader.

Review by James Grant Read the review The upheavals of the Cultural Revolution left the leaders of the Chinese Communist ...

Yuan Zhu Source: Mekong Review ‘… a very welcome and very readable contribution to broader debates on the Chinese Communist Party.’ Carolin Kautz Source: Pacific Affairs ‘For experts, the book offers ...

As I reread it, I found the book was set in “young communist China,” only four years after Mao Zedong (1893-1976) declared the foundation of the People’s Republic of China. The Communist ...