This book documents a systematic investigation into various aspects of policing in the People’s Republic of China, including its scholarship, idea, origin, history, education, culture, reform, and theory. It approaches the study of Chinese policing from an indigenous perspective, informed by local empirical data. In proposing an innovative theory of community policing entitled «Police Power as a Social Resource Theory», the book seeks to look at crime as a personal problem, and police as a social resource, from the perspective of the people and not the state.

Kam C. Wong earned his B.A. (Hons.) and J.D. from Indiana University (Bloomington). He obtained his Ph.D. in criminal justice from SUNY-Albany, and earned the Remington Award for Distinguished Work in Law and Social Science. He was Director of the Chinese Law Program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and has served as the vice-president of the Hong Kong Society of Criminology and vice-chair of the Center of Criminology at Hong Kong University. Professor Wong was an Inspector of Police with the Hong Kong Police, and has practiced and taught law in the U.S. and Hong Kong.