Tigers without Teeth: The Pursuit of Justice in Contemporary China

摘要

In February 2016, Beijing Zhongze Women's Legal Counselling and Service Centre was shut down by order of the authorities. Zhongze, a leading women's legal aid centre founded after the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, was just one of the civil society organizations that became "sensitive" after the first drafting of China's Foreign NGO Management Law in December 2014. This recent development triggered many questions regarding, for instance, the role of civil society organizations in China's legal evolution and why the authoritarian state tolerates certain rights-advocacy NGOs and blocks others. For anyone interested in these issues, Wilson's book, Tigers without Teeth: The Pursuit of Justice in Contemporary China, is a must-read.