This work draws on a wide variety of openly and internally published laws, legal interpretations, talks, speeches, Communist Party documents and other sources in order to portray the development of the Chinese criminal justice system between 1979 and 1985 and to place this development in the context of China's modernization during the Deng era. This work should be of interest to students of comparative law and criminal justice, as well as to specialists in Chinese law, politics, and the history of the People's Republic.

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