The Criminal Process in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1963 An Introduction

...a painstakingly compiled thesis... which must be regarded as the definitive work on its subject matter... as well as a major contribution to the source material of comparative law.

Harvard University Press and Professor Cohen should be congratulated for this significant work on the criminal process in Communist China before the Cultural Revolution. Combining published sources and interviews, this volume is the fruit of years of devoted research and thorough scholarship. While the focus is on the criminal process, due attention is given to substantive criminal law and the modes of its application. Conscientious efforts are further made to relate legal institutions to political, economic, and social systems. The volume, therefore, will prove to he valuable not only to lawyers but also to scholars of the social sciences and the humanities.