Animals in China

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. When Animals and Humans Meet in the Middle Kingdom: Introduction

   • Deborah Cao

   Pages 1-9

3. Happy Fish and Royal Workers: Animals in Traditional Chinese Philosophy and Law

   • Deborah Cao

   Pages 10-26

4. Pandamonium: Wildlife Law

   • Deborah Cao

   Pages 27-64

5. Crouching Tiger Bones, Hidden Elephant Tusks: Wildlife Crimes

   • Deborah Cao

   Pages 65-99

6. The F-Word of Cats and Dogs, Food or Friends: Companion Animals

   • Deborah Cao

   Pages 100-122

7. Caged Monkey Kings, Naked Foxes and Screaming Bunnies: Working Animals

   • Deborah Cao

   Pages 123-147

8. Chinese Animal Lib: An Emerging Social Movement

   • Deborah Cao

   Pages 148-169

9. Last Words …

   • Deborah Cao

   Pages 170-171

10. Back Matter

    Pages 172-216

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Just as China is called the world factory for manufactured goods, it is also a world factory for manufactured animal cruelty in a new phenomenon of globalized animal cruelty. Animals in China examines animal protection in China in its legal, social and cultural contexts.

• China animal law
• animal protection
• animal welfare
• wildlife crimes
• Chinese culture
• Chinese society
• animal cruelty
• English
• law
• philosophy

“Animals in China: Law and Society has the unusual quality of being both a monograph on animal law in China and a brilliant guide to the changing fortunes of nonhuman animals in the rapidly developing China. … The work should be of interest not only to both the animal-concerned scholarly community and the general public, but also essential reading for all those who are prepared to think about and work for the animal issue at the much-needed global level.” (Chien-Hui Li, Journal of Animal Ethics, Vol. 7 (1), 2017)

'For anyone concerned about the suffering of animals, nothing can be more important than the attempt to improve animal protection in China. This movement will have to come predominantly from the Chinese people themselves, and they will take their own path, which may not be the same as the path currently being taken in the West. Nevertheless, we in the West may be able to encourage and assist them in some ways. To do that we first need to understand what the situation with regard to animals in China is. Reading Animals in China: Law and Society is an essential step towards that greater understanding. Deborah Cao covers a wide area, and although her focus is on the law, she also helps us to understand Chinese cultural practices with regard to animals and the philosophical background to them.'

- Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, USA and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia

• Griffith University, Australia

  Deborah Cao

Deborah Cao is a professor at Griffith University, Australia. She is a scholar of animal law, legal language, legal translation and Chinese law and legal culture. She is also active in social media in China and writes about Chinese culture, society and animals, and was named one of the 200 most influential bloggers in China in 2012.

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