Modern Chinese Legal Reform: New Perspectives

Contributors

Contributors Liqun Cao is professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada. He has held previous positions at Eastern Michigan University, Salem State College, and Miami University in the United States. His research interests include comparative sociology , criminological theory, gun ownership, confidence in the police, police integrity, public attitudes toward prostitution, and race and ethnicity in criminal justice. His research essays have appeared in many top national and international journals, including Criminology, Journal of Criminal Justice , Justice Quarterly, Policing, and Social Forces. He is the author of Major Criminological Theories: Concepts and Measurement (2004). His coauthored paper “Crime Volume and Law and Order Culture” (2007) won the 2008 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences’ Donal MacNamara Award. Cao is bilingual and has published two books in Chinese. He was a visiting scholar at Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Germany (2000) and a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Lithuania (2004). He served as the president of the Association of Chinese Criminology and Criminal Justice in the United States (2010–12). He is an honorary member of the Albanian Institute of Sociology. Qiang Fang is an assistant professor of East Asian history at the University of Minnesota–Duluth. His book project, Chinese Complaint Systems: Natural Resistance, currently is forthcoming in 2013. He has published numerous articles in major journals, including Modern Chinese Studies, Collected Papers of History Studies, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Asian History, Stanford Journal of International Law, Education about Asia, and Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs. Jieli Li received his doctoral degree in sociology from the University of California at Riverside. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ohio University. His research and teaching revolve around social change and development, historical and comparative sociology, sociological theory, and conflict resolution. His 272  Contributors research articles have appeared in such major scholarly journals as Sociological Theory, International Journal of the Sociology of Law, Sociological Perspectives, Sociological Focus, International Journal of Public Administration , and Michigan Sociological Review. In addition, he currently serves as council chair of the United Society of China Studies (USCS), president of the Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences (ACPSS) in the United States, and council member at large for the North Central Sociological Association (NCSA). LiYing Li is a professor and chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Metropolitan State College of Denver. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. She received her M.S. in demography from the University of California at Berkeley. Her research interests include criminological theories, sex offenders, serial killers , human trafficking, and comparative criminal justice and criminology. She is the author or coauthor of numerous articles and book chapters. Li has been a board member of the Denver Community Corrections Board for the last few years. Xiaobing Li is professor and chair of the Department of History and Geography and director of the Western Pacific Institute at the University of Central Oklahoma. He is the executive editor of the Journal of American Review of China Studies. His recent books include China at War: An Encyclopedia (2012), Civil Liberties in China (2010), Voices from the Vietnam War (2010), New Historiography in the Contemporary West (coedited , 2008), A History of the Modern Chinese Army (2007), Voices from the Korean War (coauthored, 2004), Taiwan in the Twenty-first Century (coedited , 2003), Chinese Immigrants in the United States (coauthored, 2003), Mao’s Generals Remember Korea (coedited, 2001), and Social Transition in China (coedited, 2000). Xiaoxiao Li is a faculty member in China Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Before he began his college teaching career, he worked as general manager of Asian projects for Smith Cogeneration Management, Inc., from 2001 to 2008; deputy manager of Xinjiang Carpet and Arts and Crafts Import-Export Corporation (China) from 1996 to 1999; and general manager of Joint Venture Lejia Carpet Corporation Ltd. (China) from 1994 to Contributors  273 1997. Among his major business achievements was the construction of a 550-megawatt gas turbine Power plant in China between 2001 and 2007. Bin Liang is an associate professor of sociology at Oklahoma State University at Tulsa. He received both a Ph.D. and a J.D. in 2003. He is the author of two books, The Changing Chinese Legal System, 1978–Present: Centralization of Power and Rationalization of the...