Kwai Hang Ng is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He has written a series of articles (with Xin He) on different aspects of the Chinese grassroots courts, addressing topics including courtroom discourse, mediation, criminal reconciliation, domestic violence, and divorce petitions. Ng's previous book, The Common Law in Two Voices: Language, Law, and the Postcolonial Predicament in Hong Kong (2009), was a recipient of a Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Law Section in 2010. Xin He is Professor and Director of Chinese and Comparative Law at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. He has published more than thirty articles in the leading journals in the fields of law and society, comparative law, and the Chinese legal system. His previous Visiting Professorships include those at New York University School of Law, University of Illinois College of Law, and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China.
'It is a book about the growing heterogeneity and transformation of the Chinese court system, in relation to the nature of China's partystate and the changing social, political, and economic environment ... Through this analytical framework, disparate strands of researches on Chinese courts can be brought together. This book provides an important touchstone for researches on Chinese courts for years to come.' Juan Wang, Journal of Chinese Political Science 'Every good book raises as many questions as it answers, and this is a very good book. The most obvious concern China, and Embedded Courts will be required reading for those interested in China.' Frank K. Upham, Law & Social Inquiry