Bin Liang

author of The Changing Chinese Legal System, 1978-Present: Centralization of Power and Rationalization of the Legal System

November 4, 2015

Bin Liang, an assistant professor in the department of sociology at Oklahoma State University-Tulsa, has published a number of articles on studies related to crime and the legal system in China. He received his Ph.D. and J.D. degrees from Arizona State University in 2003. His new book with Routledge (2008) is titledThe Changing Chinese Legal System, 1978-Present: Centralization of Power and Rationalization of the Legal System. His current research interests include globalization and its impact on the Chinese legal system, crime and deviance in China, and the drug court in Tulsa County, Oklahoma.

The Changing Chinese Legal System, 1978-Present: Centralization of Power and Rationalization of the Legal System examines dramatic changes happened to the Chinese legal system in the reform era. In addition to historical analyses of changes at the economic, political-legal, and social levels, special attention is given to crime and punishment functions of the legal system and the current judicial system based on a field research in Beijing and Chengdu. This book also examines the Chinese legal system within the global system. The increasing integration of China's economy into the global system brings dramatic changes at home, and China's changing legal system at the same time plays an increasing role in the process of the Chinese government's transition in the global context.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2008-honorees/bin-liang

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