A critical evaluation of the latest reform in Chinese law that engages legal scholarship with research of Chinese legal historians.

1. The law, China and the world: an introduction Yun Zhao and Michael Ng; Part I. Chinese Legal Reform in Xi Jinping's Era: 2. Punishments in the post re-education through labour world: questions about minor crime in China Sarah Biddulph; 3. Understanding the presumption of innocence in China: institution and practice Lin Xifen and Casey Watters; 4. Judicial approach to human rights in transitional China Shucheng Wang; 5. Public enforcement of securities laws: a case of convergence? Chao Xi and Xuanming Pan; 6. China's free trade from SEZs to CEPA to FTZs: the Beijing Consensus in global convergence and divergence Wenwei Guan; 7. Achievements and challenges of Chinese maritime judicial practice Liang Zhao; 8. Interaction of national law-making and international treaties: implementation of the convention against torture in China Bjorn Ahl; 9. Online privacy protection: a Legal regime for personal data protection in China Yun Zhao; Part II. The Back Matters: Historical Legal Reform in China: 10. Traditionalising Chinese law: symbolic epistemic violence in the discourse of legal reform and modernity in late Qing China Li Chen; 11. Judicial orientalism: imaginaries of Chinese legal transplantation in common law Michael Ng; 12. Commercial arbitration transplanted: a tale of the book industry in modern Shanghai Billy K. L. So and Sufumi So; 13. China's unilateral abrogation of the Sino-Belgian Treaty: case study of an instance of deviant transplantation Maria Adelel Carrai; 14. Consequential court and judicial leadership: the unwritten Republican judicial tradition in China Zhaoxin Jiang.