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.
