Book Review: Chinese Law on SARS by Chenglin Liu

摘要

The pace of change in contemporary China is staggering. Changes to the Chinese legal system are more difficult for foreigners to appreciate than alterations of the physical environment, in part because they are less visible, and are less frequently reported by the foreign press. Against this backdrop of unrelenting change and slow scholarly publication comes Chenglin Liu’s Chinese Law on SARS. The book analyzes the Chinese response to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic in 2003. Most notably, it examines the government’s passing of two new laws and the implementation of other legal steps to bolster the nation’s public health system.