Burden of Desire by Robert Macneil
The relationship between politics and law in the early People'sRepublic of China was highly contentious. Periods of intentionallyexcessive campaign justice intersected with attempts to carve outprofessional standards of adjudication and to offer retroactive justicefor those deemed to have been unjustly persecuted. How were victims andperpetrators defined and dealt with during different stages of theMaoist era and beyond? How was law practiced, understood, and contestedin local contexts? This volume adopts a case study approach to shedlight on these complex questions. By way of a close reading of originalcase files from the grassroots level, the contributors detailprocedures and question long-held assumptions, not least about theCultural Revolution as a period of lawlessness.Until his retirement in 1995, ROBERT MacNEIL was the coanchor of PBS' MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour. He has published three novels and two volumes of memoirs. MacNeil was up in Nova Scotia, which is where his bestselling memoir Wordstruck is based. His time is now split between Halifax and New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385420198 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385420196 |
| Title | Burden of Desire |
| Author | Robert Macneil |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Nan A. Talese |
| Year published | 1992-02-11 |
| Number of pages | 466 |
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