From Leninist Discipline to Socialist Legalism: Peng Zhen on Law and Political Authority in the PRC

At the sentence level, though, this reviewer wishes that Potter had been more careful with utilizing the standard acronym CCP instead of sporting "CPC" for what he elsewhere rightly spells out as the "Chinese Communist Party" (p. 23); with not omitting the umlaut from key terms likefalii ("law," p. 67); with using the standard translation "counterrevolutionaries" instead of the substandard "anti-revolutionaries" for fan 'geming (p. 15); and with avoiding in his narrative value-laden terms such as "Liberation" when non-tendentious substitutes like "1949" or "the civil war victory" were readily available (p. 22).