From Leninist Discipline to Socialist Legalism: Peng Zhen on Law and Political Authority in the PRC.(Book review)

From: Canadian Journal of History | Date: December 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

From Leninist Discipline to Socialist Legalism: Peng Zhen on Law and Political Authority in the PRC, by Pitman B. Potter. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003. xi, 259 pp. $55.00 US (cloth).

Any doubts as to whether Pitman Potter's monograph has been meticulously researched would be allayed by the fact that two-fifths of this book consists of end matter, roughly fifty pages each of endnotes and bibliography (yet unfortunately without any sinograph glossary). At the sentence level, though, this reviewer wishes that Potter had been more careful with utilizing the standard ...

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