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Anqi Shen’s fascinating study of women police in China reminds us that comparative scholarship cannot ignore national contexts, policies, and goals. Through China’s "policing flowers," Shen documents how the Chinese government, the Communist Party, and societal views of sex roles influence police men and women and reinforce the starkly different positions they hold in their agencies.

Dorothy Moses Schulz, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

This book is a penetrating insight into the position of women in the Chinese police revealing the paradox of notional gender equality and women's entrapment within Chinese society which remains patriarchal, with stereotypes, traditional gender norms and sex role expectations constraining women's full participation in policing. Theoretically it offers an alternative to Western democratic models of women's progression and ingenuously gathered empirical data give fascinating accounts of policewomen's lived experiences. A book for scholars of police culture, gender studies and students of Sinology.

Professor Jennifer Brown, Mannheim Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science

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