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Contents Foreword Preface Introduction Part One Marxism in Deng's China Chapter One The Impact of Ideological Upheaval on the Legal System in China Chapter Two Deng Xiaoping's Ideas on Law Chapter Three Chinese Jurists' Perspectives on Law Part Two Legal Reform and the Practice of Law: Case Studies in the Administration of Criminal Justice, 1979-1989 Chapter Four In the Wake of the Third Plenum: The Inception of Legal Reform vii ix 15 17 33 43 69 73 vi Contents Chapter Five The Prelude to Legal Order: The Inauguration of Criminal Justice, 1980-82 87 Chapter Six On the Threshold of Legality: 1983-85 133 Chapter Seven Legal Reform in Progress: The Emergence of a Legal Society, 1986-89 191 Part Three Towards a Chinese Socialist System and a Chinese Theory of Law 245 Chapter Eight Principles, Theory and Practice of Socialist Law in the First Decade of Legal Reform 247 Chapter Nine The 1989 Student Democratic Movement: A Legal Perspective 271 Chapter Ten Trials of Dissidents of the 1989 Democratic Movement: The Limits of Socialist Justice 297 Conclusion 323 Appendix 1 Structure of the Criminal Justice System of the People's Republic of China 329 Appendix 2 Law and Regulations of the People's Republic of China for Criminal Justice, 1949-1993 331 Glossary 339 Bibliography 349 Index to Case Studies 365 Index 369 ...

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