Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-168) and index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Traditionally, social theorists in the West have structured models of state social control according to the tenet that socialization is accomplished by means of external controls on behavior: undesirable actions are punished and desirable actions result either in material reward or a simple respite from the oppressive attentions of an authoritarian state. In this volume, the author presents the tradition of law in China as an exception to the Western model of social control. The Confucian bureaucracy that has long structured Chinese social life melded almost seamlessly with the Maoist revoluti.
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Title
Tradition of the law and law of the tradition.
International Standard Book Number
9780313290961
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Criminal justice, Administration of-- Social aspects-- China.