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Book review: Civil Society under Authoritarianism: The China Model

their specific cultures. It is self-evident that special tolerance for the culture and perceptions of one state will only undermine the general obligation of all to comply. Explanations of why there is non-compliance must at the same time guard against the danger of appearing to justify non-compliance. These cautions aside, as a strictly explanatory tool, Potter’s book represents a superb achievement. Its evolving story of the complex interplay between ‘non-local legal forms transplanted to China’ (p. 125) and local legal culture and institutional behaviour represents an analytical tour de force, alive to the differences between specific international rules and corresponding Chinese legislation, comprehensive in its understanding of China’s changing political, economic, social and cultural environment and, above all, sensitive to the intimate interaction between that environment and continuity and change in China’s legal culture.