Animals in China

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.

'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

• 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