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This book explores the petition(¿¿), a political system with Chinese characteristics. It is an important form of political participation for people at the bottom and an effective means of supervising officials at the grassroots level for the higher-level government. Through a half-year fieldwork of the Public Security Bureau, the author found that the operational logic of the petition seems to be different from the past, and it is the change of petition logic that leads to the dilemma that "the cost of petitioning is reduced but the road of rights safeguarding is narrowed," or in other words, it's easier to make a petition but harder to succeed for those who are truly wronged. This book based on the grassroots of China's legal system is worth reading for those that are interested in studying police and petition as well as political sociology and organizational sociology.

This book explores the shifting nature of physician¿patient relationship in China. Specifically, it takes the physician¿patient relationship during the barefoot doctor program in 1968¿1978, the marketization of healthcare in 1978¿2002, and the healthcare reform in 2003¿2020 as three historical periods, illustrating how the nature of the physician¿patient relationship has changed over time. Analyzing the ways in which law and social policies¿involving the doctrine of informed consent, public hospital reform, and systemic healthcare reform¿have in different ways shaped and changed the practices of physicians and patients, which illustrates how the bond between them threatens to collapse. With a uniquely vivid depiction of Chinese healthcare issues, this book will interest sociologists, China scholars and more.

The admiration of science and technology and the emphasis on political stability are two sides of the same coin in China. Therefore, China is more likely to take aggressive measures to promote or inhibit platform development than the United States and the European Union. But the uncertainty in the decision-making process is worrisome and calls for a broader discussion of the multiple political consequences of technology.