The U.S. has 400,000 lawyers in a society of 200 million people. China, a country with four times that population, has a mere 3,500 lawyers. How do the Chinese achieve law without lawyers? Victor Li, one of the world's leading authorities on Chinese law, explores the way the Chinese and U.S. systems have historically viewed law (and still view it),

Foreword -- Introduction -- A Window and a Mirror -- Controlling Conduct: The Actors and the Institutions -- Law and Deviancy -- The Community -- The Formal Criminal Process -- The Case of Kuo Tzu-Ch'iang: Conviction and Exoneration -- The United States and China: Dealing with Differences