This book examines legal reform in China. Drawing on Bourdieu's concept of the 'field', the increasingly complex and … contested processes of legal reform are analysed in relation to police powers. The impact of China's post-1978 legal reforms on …

After its quot;revitalisationquot; after the Cultural Revolution, China's people's mediation system declined throughout … urban China and the government's interest in strengthening this institution. Policy reforms at the national level …

, encompassing incremental reform, institutional reform and fundamental reform. China is perhaps the most influential nation not to …-state arbitration, and yet these provisions have lain dormant. Though still in its infancy, recent developments in China … agreements, China has the potential to assume a leading role in the development of dispute-settlement mechanisms around the globe …