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Li Lin, editor. The China Legal Development Yearbook. Volumes 1 and 2. Leiden: Brill, 2008 (vol. 1), 2009 (vol. 2). xiii, 320 pp. (vol. 1); xiii, 408 (vol. 2). Hardcover [...]

China is in the midst of an ambitious rectification campaign. Since 2014, Xi Jinping has launched an aggressive effort to reassert party ideological controls over art, culture, and higher education that had partially slipped during the more relaxed atmosphere of China's post-1978 reform era. Within Chinese universities, intellectuals are facing intensified pressures for political conformity--through political education, funding pressures, and direct repression. Such efforts resemble the early stages of the campaign to re-establish party dominance over the bar and legal profession in the early 2000s. These pressures are likely to steadily worsen in the near future, with significant negative implications for intellectual life in China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the decision of the Chinese Communist Party during the Fourth Plenary Session which focused on the ruling of law in China. It examines the impact of technical legal reforms which strengthen the governance of state and society in the nation. It also notes that the decision provides support to judicial professionalism and litigation in favor of politicized mediation and populist judging to resolve citizen disputes

The article discusses the changes in the political ideology of China following the appointment of Xi Jingping as the General Secretary of the Communist Party in November 2012. The legal and economic reforms unveiled by Xi during the Third Plenum in November 2013 are outlined. The depiction of Chinese history in museums, textbooks and state media is highlighted.

The article focuses on the legal reforms for China under the supervision of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Secretary General Xi Jingping. It says that the official is following the leadership style of the statesman Deng Xiaoping as an economic reformer. It mentions that the speech of Xi indicates his upholding for the rule of law. It adds that demands for serious judicial and legal reforms have to face internal opposition.

The author reflects on the impact of the rapid growth in the economic and political influence of China to the foreign policy of the U.S. He claims that China's development will alter the preeminent geopolitical position that the U.S. has experienced since the end of the Cold War. He stresses that the country should view China's rise not as a threat but as a challenge. In terms of China's economic and political influence, he suggests that the U.S. government should deal it in a bipartisan manner.