Are U.S. and EU analysts getting Chinese antitrust wrong - and so misunderstanding a key element of the struggle over China's participation in the global legal order? Angela Zhang's terrific book takes you on a deep dive into Chinese institutions to show how antitrust enforcement there is a bottom-up bureaucratic process, not a top-down command and control structure. From this research comes a policy approach for the West to adopt, based on incentives and threats, that has a chance of working. Required reading for anyone interested in China-West relations through the lens of law and real-world politics.
Angela Huyue Zhang is Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Chinese Law at the University of Hong Kong. She previously taught at King's College London and practiced with leading international law firms in the United States, Europe and Asia.