Deng Zibin, China on Crosswalk: A Review of a Decade of Development of the Rule of Law in China, Beijing: Law Press China, 2013

From lie detectors to surveillance cameras, from security check to urban management officers, and from arrest and judgment announcement rallies to criminal punishment for speeches… China's road towards the rule of law in the past ten years has been a long and arduous one. The rule of law is a kind of promise: "it is safe to walk on the zebra crossing." However, if the rule of law cannot be conscientiously implemented, zebra crossings can become killing fields where people die for trusting the system-which is the most unbearable situation for the state and the nation. Crosswalks are concrete and vivid classrooms where people can get a better understanding of the rule of law and explore the ways of establishing an order without power, thereby also enhancing their human dignity and autonomy. The author hopes the readers will find out from the calm and yet passionate observations in this book that the rule of law is forging ahead, although with great difficulties, in China and that Chinese legal professionals have been making unremitting efforts in enlightening the public about the rule of law. With its concise and incisive style of writing, profound ideas, and dialectic logics, this book reveals a magnificent picture of "the struggle for rights" in contemporary China.