Table of Contents

PART ONE: THEORY AND HISTORY
1: Introduction: Socio-Economic Studies of the Mafia
2: Gangs as Pseudo-Government
PART TWO: EXTRA-LEGAL PROTECTION IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA
3: Why the State Fails: Conflicts between Law and Guanxi
4: The Black Mafia
5: The Red Mafia
6: The Red-Black Collusion
PART THREE: CONCLUSIONS AND REFLECTIONS
7: The Mafia and the State
8: China's War Against Mafias

About the Author

Peng Wang is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Hong Kong. He holds an MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice and a PhD in Law from King's College London. His research interests include organized crime, police corruption, military corruption and extra-legal governance.

Reviews

Wang's book provided a great case study, which I found inspiring when discussing the relationship between guanxi network and the rule of law with colleagues, as it presents various manifestations in diverse areas of social science studies of contemporary China.
*Xiaoye Zhang, Asian Journal of Criminology*

This book is compelling and informative in its opening of the 'black box' of guanxi networks in China ... a unique addition to the field of mafia research, one that has overcome the formidable challenge of data access.
*Chi Zhang, Europe-Asia Studies*

The book, which is a compelling amalgam of theoretical robustness and meticulous empirical detail, manifests the author's unique insight in the phenomenon of the 'Chinese Mafia', his unrivalled knowledge, keen intelligence and confidence in almost every page. ... His work is a rich, erudite and stimulating discussion; a criminological gem, which will certainly find its way as an essential reading on Chinese organized crime and corruption.
*Georgios A Antonopoulos, Theoretical Criminology*

Wang's book should be warmly welcomed, given the rise of a security state and the conservative turn of the Chinese authoritarian regime in recent years. The crackdown on human rights lawyers, the tightened media control, and declining academic freedom all make the current campaign against corruption, and by extension the Chinese mafia, far less effective in the long run, as the book convincingly argues.
*Jianhua Xu, The China Journal*