This research examines the process of adoption and adaption in which foreign norms and local conditions have interacted to shape the evolutionary trajectory of the China Securities Regulatory Commission's (CSRC) enforcement programme. It argues that two salient features of Chinese securities...

Drawing on a dataset comprising all 447 CSRC sanction decisions taken from 2006 to 2012, this research presents preliminary empirical findings on an important component of China's public securities enforcement activities: CSRC administrative sanctions and industry bans. In particular, it shows...