Legal Scholars and Scholarship in the People?s Republic of China

A comprehensive introduction to Chinese legal scholarship and the prominent scholars who developed it during the initial decades of the PRC, when the old Chinese legal system was abolished and replaced by the newly established Communist government. Withresponsibilities for recovery and reconstruction, while cultivating entirely new disciplines and branches of legal studies, the thirty-three leading jurists featured herein contributed significantly to the creation and teaching of the new Communist legalsystem--