Book review
Book Review: China’s Human Rights Lawyers
Advocacy and Resistance, by Eva Pils
The main entrance to the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China. (Source: Rneches /Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 3.0)
01 Oct 2015,
published in
The China Quarterly, 223
At a time when China’s human rights lawyers are facing systematic repression, Eva Pils’s illuminating book provides a timely and engaging account of their work, fears and aspirations. The study, based on extensive face-to-face conversations with weiquan lawyers in mainland China, makes an authoritative contribution to our understanding of the Chinese legal profession and of Chinese courts, which continue to operate under strict Party-state control.
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