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Chinese Courts and Criminal Procedure: Post-2013 Reforms Edited by Björn Ahl Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021 288 pp. £85.00 ISBN 978-1-1088-3330-1

ethnographic approaches, including the collection and analysis of legal documents as well as ethnographic fieldwork. The fieldwork was carried out in “itinerant” fashion in various sites in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Beijing and Yunnan Province, and included participant observation, mostly at universities, as well as individual and focus group interviews with students and “language leaders.” Grey’s fieldwork was also multimodal, including photography of linguistic landscapes and the collection of physical and digital texts. The ethnographic details of the book paint a rich picture of life and language in China, full of poignant and striking moments, such as when two Zhuang students misrecognize the romanized Zhuang script on public signage as English. The analysis of this data provides many valuable insights about the relationship between law, language and lived experience for “minorities” in China, and presents an overall picture of how language rights are undermined through a patchwork of competing interests, indifference and neglect. This book, in addition to making useful contributions to our understanding of language policy in China, will also be a helpful teaching resource for both graduate and undergraduate students. The book is written in a crisp, clear, accessible style, and most chapters can be used as stand-alone readings. The materials in part two, particularly chapter three (“The foundational language rights: legal provisions about minority languages and minority peoples”), would be helpful for a survey class on China and its governance. Chapter two (“What is Zhuang? A critical sociolinguistic profile”), and any of the chapters in part three would be useful for a course on ethnic minorities in China. Grey’s book will also make a welcome addition to reading lists for postgraduate students working on language and cultural policy in China, “minority” issues, or on general issues related to law and policy.