China's Treatment of Crimes Against the Environment: Using Criminal Sanctions to Fight Environmental Degradation in the PRC

Chun-Xi, Yang; Head, John W.; Sheng-Rong, Liu

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1994

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Chun-Xi, Yang

Head, John W.

Sheng-Rong, Liu

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Center for Chinese Legal Studies, Columbia University School of Law

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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version

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Change is coming rapidly to the People's Republic of China (the "PRC" or "China"), especially in three related areas — degradation of its physical environment, transformation of its economic system and modernization of its legal system. This Article examines a development that lies at the intersection of these three areas of change: the use of criminal law in the fight against environmental degradation in the PRC. [...]

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Yang Chun-xi, John W. Head & Liu Sheng-rong, China's Treatment of Crimes Against the Environment: Using Criminal Sanctions to Fight Environmental Degradation in the PRC, 8 Journal of Chinese Law 145-184 (1994).

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