'In exploring the complex commonalities and divergences of policing in Asia, Chen and Fu have produced the very best kind of edited volume. It brings together a range of great scholars on a novel question, and collectively moves our knowledge forward. Highly recommended!' Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, Professor of Political Science, The University of Chicago
Part I. Framework: 1. Mapping the authoritarian and democratic divide: the transformation of policing in East Asia Hualing Fu and Weitseng Chen; 2. Discipline or democracy: the endogeneity of police accountability Jedidiah Kroncke; Part II. Authoritarian Policing: Past and Present: 3. High policing and human rights lawyering in China Hualing Fu; 4. Transformation in policing minor offending in China Sarah Biddulph; 5. From revolutions to COVID-19: policing narratives in Vietnam Trang (Mae) Nguyen; 6. Unrestrained but limited: Policing vagrancy in authoritarian Seoul Erik Mobrand; Part III. Democratic Transition and Authoritarian Resilience: 7. Public order, social drama, and legitimate force: policing popular uprisings in Hong Kong and Taiwan, 2014 Jeffrey T. Martin; 8. Adaptive authoritarian policing: a journey from China and Japan to Taiwan Weitseng Chen; 9. Organizational legacies of authoritarian police in post-war Japan Koichi Nakano; 10. Authoritarian policing and democratization: the case of Thailand Eugénie Mérieau; Part IV. The Singapore and Hong Kong Exceptions: 11. Democratic policing in an authoritarian state?: a historical look at Singapore Kevin YL Tan; 12. Empires collaborate: geopolitics of colonial policing in Hong Kong (1880s–1970s) Michael Ng; 13. The end of soft-style protest policing in a hybrid regime: evidence from Hong Kong Peng Wang, Paul Joosse and Lok Lee Cho; Part V. Conclusion: 14. Authoritarian police and policing East Asia: scope, patterns, and paradoxes Jacques deLisle; Index.