Description: Analyzes the major laws promulgated during the Xi Jinping era against a background of the politics and ideology of the Xi regime in general.
Brief description: Shiping Hua is Calvin and Helen Lang Distinguished Chair in Asian Studies, Director of the Asian Studies Program, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville. He is the author of several books, including Scientism and Humanism: Two Cultures in Post-Mao China (1978-1989), also by SUNY Press.
Review Quotes:
"Hua explores Xi Jinping's attitude toward law and explains why Xi became increasingly assertive in imposing stringent laws on anyone against him. This timely work sheds new light on this complicated but very important topic." - Xiaobing Li, University of Central Oklahoma