Animals in China: Law and Society by Deborah Cao (English) Hardcover Book

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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.

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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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword Preface Acknowledgements1. When Animals and Humans Meet in the Middle Kingdom: Introduction 2. Happy Fish and Royal Workers: Animals in Traditional Philosophy and Law3. Pandamonium: Wildlife Law4. Crouching Tiger Bones, Hidden Elephant Tusks: Wildlife Crimes 5. The F-word of Cats and Dogs: Food or Friends 6. Caged Monkey Kings, Naked Foxes and Screaming Bunnies: Working Animals 7. Chinese Animal Lib: An Emerging Social Movement8. Last Words… Appendix 1: Legal Provisions Quoted in Original ChineseAppendix 2: List of Statutes in Chinese and EnglishAppendix 3: List of Laboratory Primate QuotasBibliographyIndex

Review

"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)

Long Description

With the rise of China comes the potential retreat and demise of some animal species. In recent years, with the growing awareness of animal issues in China, animal cruelty and animal protection have been attracting more attention and generating public debates. Animals in China: Law and Society examines the laws and regulatory framework for animal protection in contemporary China in its social and cultural contexts, and is the first comprehensive research monograph on the subject. It covers all key areas of the debate including wildlife, companion animals, fur animals, lab animals and other working animals. It is shown that despite the importance of animals in Chinese culture, animal suffering has not been a topic of general concern, often dismissed as being bourgeois or frivolous. However, this is beginning to change. Here, Cao documents that animal protection in China is a nascent social movement, with attitudes slowly changing through a bottom-up, grass-roots campaign which has gained traction via the internet and social media.

Review Quote

'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

Details ISBN1137408014 Author Deborah Cao Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Language English Year 2015 ISBN-10 1137408014 ISBN-13 9781137408013 Format Hardcover Series The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series Media Book Birth 1962 Publication Date 2015-08-26 Short Title ANIMALS IN CHINA 2015/E Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Law and Society Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 216 Edition 1st UK Release Date 2015-08-26 AU Release Date 2015-08-26 NZ Release Date 2015-08-26 Illustrations 1 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 216 p. 1 illus. Edited by Damian J. Smith Death 1908 Affiliation Adam Mickiewicz Univ, Poland Position EDFRTR Qualifications Sir Edition Description 1st ed. 2015 Alternative 9781349553549 DEWEY 344.51049 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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