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ID3648178
NOMESida Liu
PRENOMESSida
SOBRENOMELiu
ASSINATURALIU S
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Toronto
ORCID0000-0002-5147-0024
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS48
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES318
TOTAL COMO AUTOR48
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2006
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H9
  • The City and the North

    Open Access•Sida Liu, Gihad Nasr•ARTICLE•The American Sociologist•2026•Referências: 36

    This article explores the intertwined histories of the Chicago School of sociology and Canadian sociology, challenging the conventional view that the Chicago School’s development was confined to the city of Chicago. By examining the academic journeys of prominent Canadian scholars such as Annie Marion MacLean, Roderick McKenzie, Helen and Everett Hughes, and Erving Goffman, it illustrates how their contributions were instrumental in shaping both …

  • Historic assessment of groundwater sustainability

    Open Access•Bryan Marinelli, Sida Liu et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Research Letters•2025

    Groundwater, the largest accessible store of freshwater, plays a critical role in sustaining ecosystems and supporting human activities. Increasing water demands and climate variability, however, are accelerating the exploitation of this resource in many regions, often beyond environmentally sustainable limits. In this study, we present the first global-scale assessment of sustainable groundwater head declines, defined as the maximum permissible …

  • About the Patient Named Taiwan

    Joonsik Kim, Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary Asia•2025•Referências: 22

  • On Drifting Apart

    Open Access•Sida Liu, Gihad Nasr•ARTICLE•Symbolic Interaction•2025•Referências: 30

    Sociologists have written thousands of pages on collective action but surprisingly little on how people and groups drift apart. Following the traditions of interactionist and processual sociology, this article develops a conceptual framework that explains the complex and dynamic social process of relationship dissolution. Our framework underscores three formal aspects of relationship dissolution: relational, temporal, and spatial. Though actors h…

  • Global analysis of groundwater pumping from increased river capture

    Open Access•Inge de Graaf, Bryan Marinelli et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Research Letters•2024

    In many regions globally, groundwater overuse exceeds natural replenishment, leading to immediate consequences such as reduced river flows and devastating impacts on freshwater ecosystems. In alluvial aquifers in particular, groundwater pumping contributes to river flow reduction in two significant ways: first, by intercepting water that would naturally discharge into the river, and second, by lowering groundwater levels below the riverbed, causi…

  • Social spaces

    Open Access•Sida Liu•ARTICLE•The Journal of Chinese Sociology•2024•Referências: 13

    Focusing on the concept of social space in the writings of three sociologists, Georg Simmel, Robert E. Park, and Erving Goffman, this article examines the classic theoretical formulations of social spaces in the tradition of the Chicago School of Sociology. For Simmel and the Chicago School, the foundation of social spaces lies in the social interactions among actors, and social entities and structures emerge from these interaction processes. Thi…

  • Crisis as opportunity

    Open Access•Sida Liu, Anson Au et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2024

    This article investigates the career trajectories of Hong Kong solicitors during two historical turning points, specifically 1994-1997 and 2018-2021, when hundreds of lawyers left private practice to pursue alternative career options such as business and finance, government and politics, or relocation to other countries. Data are sourced from the career mobility records of law firm partners reported in 336 monthly issues of the Hong Kong Lawyer j…

  • Rights in China

    Open Access•Sida Liu, Sitao Li•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Sociology•2024•Citada por: 1•Referências: 84

    This article presents a sociological perspective on understanding rights in China, examining the interplay between multiple myths of rights, rights abuses, and the politics of rights within various social and physical spaces. It highlights competing myths of rights held by the state, ordinary citizens, rights activists, and legal professionals. The article examines how rights abuses contribute to rights consciousness and mobilization across diffe…

  • Factors affecting outdoor physical activity in extreme temperatures in a sub-tropical Chinese urban population

    Open Access•Janice Ho, Janice Y Ho et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2023

    Among 435 participants (42.8% response rate), over a third of the participants reported decreased outdoor PA level in extreme temperature events, while 10% reported an increase in extreme heat. Self-reported cardiovascular diseases were associated with decreased PA level in extreme cold, while hypertension was associated with unchanged/increased PA level in extreme heat. These results suggest physical activity to be an important consideration in …

  • Health Disparity Resulting from the Effect of Built Environment on Temperature-Related Mortality in a Subtropical Urban Setting

    Open Access•Zhe Huang, Emily Ying Yang Chan et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2022

    Whereas previous studies have assessed the overall health impact of temperature in Hong Kong, the aim of this study was to investigate whether the health impact is modified by local temperature of small geographic units, which may be related to the diverse socioeconomic characteristics of these units. The effects of local temperature on non-accidental and cause-specific mortality were analyzed using Bayesian spatial models at a small-area level, …

  • Legal Elites and the Fading History of Global Legal Imperialism

    Open Access•Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Law & Social Inquiry•2022•Referências: 3

    This book is the culmination of three decades of empirical research that the two authors jointly conducted in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Asia It combines original interviews and archival research with meticulous readings of the secondary literature on the legal profession. Spanning across eight centuries, the case studies include historical cases in Western Europe (Bologna, Prussia, France, Italy, and Britain), the United State…

  • Institutional proximity and judicial corruption

    Open Access•Juan Wang, Wang Juan et al.•ARTICLE•Governance•2022•Citada por: 6•Referências: 52

    This article develops a relational explanation for judicial corruption, namely, a spatial theory of institutional proximity, to complement existing behavioral and institutional approaches. Institutional proximity refers to the spatial proximity between adjacent political or social institutions, including courts. This proximity can be a result of political or administrative regulations, workplace interactions, or the mobility of individual actors …

  • Chicago Sociology

    Open Access•Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•2022•Referências: 8

  • Doing Ethnography on Social Media

    Open Access•Di Wang, Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2021

    This article draws on the two authors’ extensive fieldwork experiences in studying Chinese feminists and lawyers on social media to offer some thoughts on how to conduct qualitative research in the digitalized world. We argue that qualitative methods such as participation observation, in-depth interview, and textual analysis can provide thick descriptions and deep, localized knowledge of social processes that go far beyond the sketches of Big Dat…

  • CCOUC Ethnic Minority Health Project

    Open Access•Kevin Kei Ching Hung, Makiko K MacDermot et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2021

    Disasters disproportionately impact poor and marginalised populations due to greater vulnerability induced by various risk determinants, such as compromised living conditions, language barriers, and limited resources for disaster risk management. Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (Health EDRM) emphasises a people- and community-centred approach for building stronger capacities in communities and countries since community members are o…

  • Dignity Discourses in Struggles for Basic Legal Freedoms in China

    Open Access•Terence C Halliday, Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Asian Journal of Law and Society•2021•Citada por: 2•Referências: 26

    How do dignity discourses shift the framing of struggles for basic legal freedoms? Based on our decade-long empirical research on lawyers and politics in China, we provide a theoretical intervention in a burgeoning socio-legal scholarship on dignity in this article. Drawing inductively from in-depth interviews, we find that a powerful current of dignity consciousness and sentiment, joined by an acute awareness of dignity harms, flows through the …

  • Between social spaces

    Open Access•Sida Liu•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social Theory•2021•Citada por: 16•Referências: 45

    Sociologists often imagine society as spaces, yet how social spaces are related remains ambiguous in most theories. In developing his field theory, Bourdieu used extensively the concept of homology to describe the structural similarities across fields, but he had not taken seriously the spaces between fields or how fields are related to each other. Adopting the Simmelian approach of formal sociology, this article outlines six basic social forms b…

  • The Mortality Risk and Socioeconomic Vulnerability Associated with High and Low Temperature in Hong Kong

    Open Access•Sida Liu, Emily Ying Yang Chan et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2020

    (1) Background: The adverse health effect associated with extreme temperature has been extensively reported in the current literature. Some also found that temperature effect may vary among the population with different socioeconomic status (SES), but found inconsistent results. Previous studies on the socioeconomic vulnerability of temperature effect were mainly achieved by multi-city or country analysis, but the large heterogeneity between citi…

  • Personal Cold Protection Behaviour and Its Associated Factors in 2016/17 Cold Days in Hong Kong

    Open Access•Holly Ching Yu Lam, Zhe Huang et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2020

    Background : Despite larger health burdens attributed to cold than heat, few studies have examined personal cold protection behaviours (PCPB). This study examined PCPB during cold waves and identified the associated factors in a subtropical city for those without central heating system. Methods : A cohort telephone survey was conducted in Hong Kong during a colder cold wave (2016) and a warmer cold wave (2017) among adults (≥15). Socio-demographi…

  • Performing Artivism

    Open Access•Di Wang, Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Law & Social Inquiry•2020•Citada por: 6•Referências: 41

    In authoritarian contexts where the state is the primary performer in the public sphere and legal mobilization is constrained and repressed, activists often seek to carve out a public space to confront the frontstage and backstage of the state’s performance in order to pursue collective action. Comparing the online legal mobilization of feminist and lawyer activists in China, this article investigates how performance arts are used by activists to…

  • Planning of a Health Emergency Disaster Risk Management Programme for a Chinese Ethnic Minority Community

    Open Access•Greta Tam, Emily Ying Yang Chan et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2019

    Rural populations living in poverty are the most vulnerable to disaster. Despite this increased risk of recurrent disaster, previous disaster experience is not a good predictor for disaster preparedness in these populations. This was evidenced on 31 August 2012, when a major flood occurred in Sichuan, China. A health needs assessment carried out in December 2012 showed that residents of Hongyan village, a Yi-minority community in Sichuan lacked d…

  • The Ecology of Activism

    Open Access•Sida Liu, Terence C Halliday•ARTICLE•Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue…•2019•Citada por: 5•Referências: 22

    This article develops an ecological theory that shifts the paradigm of professional mobilization from causes to relational spaces. It analyzes different species of activist professionals by locating them in an ecology of activism and examining how collective action emerges from their boundary work with the ecology's increasing density and consolidation. It empirically grounds the theory by explaining the political activism of Chinese lawyers in t…

  • Ordering Power under the Party

    Open Access•Juan Wang, Wang Juan et al.•ARTICLE•Asian Journal of Law and Society•2019•Citada por: 9•Referências: 31

    Existing scholarship of China's legal institutions has primarily focused on individual institutions, such as the court, the police, or the legal profession. This article proposes a relational approach to the study of political-legal institutions in China. To understand the order and exercise of power by various political-legal institutions, the relational approach emphasizes the spatial positions of actors or institutions (the police, courts, law…

  • Beyond the Manifesto

    Open Access•Lily Liang, Sida Liu•CHAPTER•The Palgrave Handbook of…•2018

  • China Modernizes

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  • Field and Ecology

    Open Access•Sida Liu, Mustafa Emirbayer•ARTICLE•Sociological Theory•2016•Citada por: 55•Referências: 39

    This article offers a theoretical comparison between field and ecology, as developed by Pierre Bourdieu and the Chicago School of sociology. While field theory and ecological theory share similar conceptualizations of actors, positions, and relations, and while they converge in their views on structural isomorphism, temporality, and social psychology, they are quite different on several other scores: power and inequality, endogeneity, heterogenei…

  • Political Liberalism and Political Embeddedness

    Open Access•Sida Liu, Terence C Halliday•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2011•Citada por: 27•Referências: 17

    This article examines the meanings of politics in everyday legal practice using the case of Chinese criminal defense lawyers. Based on 194 in-depth interviews with criminal defense lawyers and other informants in 22 cities across China, we argue that lawyers' everyday politics have two faces: on the one hand, lawyers potentially can challenge state power, protect citizen rights, and pursue proceduralism in their daily work; on the other hand, the…

  • Recursivity in Legal Change

    Open Access•Sida Liu, Terence C Halliday•ARTICLE•Law & Social Inquiry•2009•Citada por: 27•Referências: 7

    This article employs a new framework for legal change, the recursivity of law, to explain why China's criminal procedure law has cycled through numerous reforms between 1979 and 2008 without improving the conditions of lawyers' criminal defense work. The authors argue that Chinese lawyers' difficulties in criminal defense have deep roots in the recursive nature of the criminal procedure reforms. In particular, those difficulties were produced by …

  • Globalization as Boundary-Blurring

    Open Access•Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2008•Citada por: 27•Referências: 29

    The worldwide expansion of international law firms has generated regulatory battles and workplace conflicts in advanced market economies as well as developing countries. This article uses the case of China to explore the changing global-local relationship in the globalization of the legal profession and to understand the role of the government in constituting the corporate law market. The author argues that the globalization of the Chinese corpor…

  • Beyond Global Convergence

    Open Access•Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Law & Social Inquiry•2006•Citada por: 26•Referências: 21

    This article examines the localization of global legal institutions by the case study of a lower court in China's Hebei Province. Using data on the changes in the formal organizational structure, the composition of personnel, the case docket, and case dispositions in this court between 1978 and 2000, the author demonstrates that global legal institutions have survived in China's judicial practice by adapting to indigenous social and political dem…

  • Client Influence and the Contingency of Professionalism

    Open Access•Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2006•Citada por: 22•Referências: 34

    This study examines how the professional work of elite corporate lawyers is constructed by influence from different types of clients. The data presented include interviews with 24 lawyers from six elite corporate law firms in China and the author's participant-observation in one of the firms. For these elite Chinese corporate law firms, foreign corporations, state-owned enterprises, and private enterprises constitute their extremely diversified c…

  • Between social spaces

    Open Access•Sida Liu•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social Theory•2021•Citada por: 16•Referências: 45

    Sociologists often imagine society as spaces, yet how social spaces are related remains ambiguous in most theories. In developing his field theory, Bourdieu used extensively the concept of homology to describe the structural similarities across fields, but he had not taken seriously the spaces between fields or how fields are related to each other. Adopting the Simmelian approach of formal sociology, this article outlines six basic social forms b…

  • The Elastic Ceiling

    Open Access•Chunyan Zheng, Zheng Chunyan et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2017•Citada por: 16•Referências: 56

    Since the 1990s, the number of women in Chinese courts has been increasing steadily. Many women judges have risen to mid-level leadership positions, such as division chiefs and vice-chiefs, in the judicial bureaucracy. However, it remains difficult for women to be promoted to high-level leadership positions, such as vice-presidents and presidents. What explains the stratified patterns of career mobility for women in Chinese courts? In this articl…

  • The Legal Profession as a Social Process

    Open Access•Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Law & Social Inquiry•2013•Citada por: 14•Referências: 21

    This article proposes a processual theory of the legal profession. In contrast to the structural, interactional, and collective action approaches, this processual theory conceptualizes the legal profession as a social process that changes over space and time. The social process of the legal profession includes four components: (1) diagnostic struggles over professional expertise; (2) boundary work over professional jurisdictions; (3) migration ac…

  • Ordering Power under the Party

    Open Access•Juan Wang, Wang Juan et al.•ARTICLE•Asian Journal of Law and Society•2019•Citada por: 9•Referências: 31

    Existing scholarship of China's legal institutions has primarily focused on individual institutions, such as the court, the police, or the legal profession. This article proposes a relational approach to the study of political-legal institutions in China. To understand the order and exercise of power by various political-legal institutions, the relational approach emphasizes the spatial positions of actors or institutions (the police, courts, law…

  • The Ecology of Organizational Growth

    Sida Liu, Hongqi Wu•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2016•Citada por: 9•Referências: 51

    In the global legal services market, China has some of the youngest law firms but also some of the largest. In the early 21st century, several Chinese law firms have grown into mega law firms, with thousands of lawyers in a large number of domestic and overseas offices. This study uses the case of Chinese law firms to develop an ecological theory of organizational growth following the Chicago school of sociology. The authors argue that firms coex…

  • Boundary Work and Exchange

    Open Access•Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Symbolic Interaction•2015•Citada por: 9•Referências: 38

    This article develops a processual theory of boundary work and exchange for understanding the emergence and transformation of social structures such as professions and their state regulatory regimes. It argues that social boundaries are often ambiguous and elastic areas, and their social construction involves multiple forms of boundary work (boundary making, boundary blurring, and boundary maintenance) as well as the process of exchange that inte…

  • Law's Social Forms

    Open Access•Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Law & Social Inquiry•2014•Citada por: 9•Referências: 50

    Since the law and society movement in the 1960s, the sociology of law in the United States has been dominated by a power/inequality approach. Based on a sociological distinction between the forms and substances of law, this article outlines a “powerless” approach to the sociology of law as a theoretical alternative to the mainstream power/inequality approach. Following Simmel and the Chicago School of sociology, this new approach analyzes the leg…

  • Migration and Social Structure

    Open Access•Sida Liu, Lily Liang et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Policy•2014•Citada por: 8•Referências: 50

    This article uses the case ofChinese migrant lawyers to examine how the spatial mobility of individual practitioners shapes the social structure of the profession. Drawing on data from 261 interviews conducted in twelveChinese provinces during 2004–2010, the 2009ChineseLegalEnvironmentSurvey, lawyer yearbooks, and other public sources, the authors examine the patterns, causes, outcomes, and structural consequences ofChinese lawyers' internal migr…

  • Institutional proximity and judicial corruption

    Open Access•Juan Wang, Wang Juan et al.•ARTICLE•Governance•2022•Citada por: 6•Referências: 52

    This article develops a relational explanation for judicial corruption, namely, a spatial theory of institutional proximity, to complement existing behavioral and institutional approaches. Institutional proximity refers to the spatial proximity between adjacent political or social institutions, including courts. This proximity can be a result of political or administrative regulations, workplace interactions, or the mobility of individual actors …

  • Performing Artivism

    Open Access•Di Wang, Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Law & Social Inquiry•2020•Citada por: 6•Referências: 41

    In authoritarian contexts where the state is the primary performer in the public sphere and legal mobilization is constrained and repressed, activists often seek to carve out a public space to confront the frontstage and backstage of the state’s performance in order to pursue collective action. Comparing the online legal mobilization of feminist and lawyer activists in China, this article investigates how performance arts are used by activists to…

  • Discussion Law & Society Review at Fifty

    Open Access•J J Savelsberg, Terence C Halliday et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2016•Citada por: 6•Referências: 6

    This contribution presents a series of statements on the future of publishing by the Law & Society Review and the Law & Society Association generally. Framed by the first author's introductory and concluding comments are contributions by Halliday, Liu, Morrill, Seron, and Silbey. This debate, based on a LSR 50th anniversary panel held at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the LSA, is intended to open up a broader conversation among members of the Associa…

  • The Politics of Crime, Punishment, and Social Order in East Asia

    Open Access•David Leheny, Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Law and Social…•2010•Citada por: 6•Referências: 11

    Recent scholarship on crime, law, and society in China and Japan has addressed the politics of globalization and legal reform in both countries, but political context is not self-revealing. The literature on China has focused too often on the role of the police in an authoritarian state without sufficiently taking into account the changing balance of power among judicial actors, which may be more important for understanding the shape and directio…

  • The Ecology of Activism

    Open Access•Sida Liu, Terence C Halliday•ARTICLE•Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue…•2019•Citada por: 5•Referências: 22

    This article develops an ecological theory that shifts the paradigm of professional mobilization from causes to relational spaces. It analyzes different species of activist professionals by locating them in an ecology of activism and examining how collective action emerges from their boundary work with the ecology's increasing density and consolidation. It empirically grounds the theory by explaining the political activism of Chinese lawyers in t…

  • The Trial of Li Zhuang

    Open Access•Sida Liu, Lily Liang et al.•ARTICLE•Asian Journal of Law and Society•2014•Citada por: 5•Referências: 8

    The Chinese judicial system has long been influenced by a populist legal ideology that prioritizes public accountability and political legitimacy over professional autonomy. In recent years, however, the Chinese legal profession has begun to mobilize collectively, albeit episodically, to challenge this populism. Drawing on legal documents, interviews, media reports, and online discussions, this paper provides a scholarly analysis of the Li Zhuang…

  • Myth of the Social Volcano

    Open Access•Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•2011•Citada por: 4

  • Mapping the Ecology of China's Corporate Legal Sector

    Open Access•Sida Liu, David M Trubek et al.•ARTICLE•Asian Journal of Law and Society•2016•Citada por: 3•Referências: 59

    Globalization is rapidly changing the landscape of law practice in China, especially its corporate legal sector. This article reports on the preliminary findings of the China research of the Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies (GLEE) Project-a comparative study that examines how globalization is reshaping the market for legal services in important emerging economies and how these developments are contributing to the transformation of t…

  • Dignity Discourses in Struggles for Basic Legal Freedoms in China

    Open Access•Terence C Halliday, Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Asian Journal of Law and Society•2021•Citada por: 2•Referências: 26

    How do dignity discourses shift the framing of struggles for basic legal freedoms? Based on our decade-long empirical research on lawyers and politics in China, we provide a theoretical intervention in a burgeoning socio-legal scholarship on dignity in this article. Drawing inductively from in-depth interviews, we find that a powerful current of dignity consciousness and sentiment, joined by an acute awareness of dignity harms, flows through the …

  • Rights in China

    Open Access•Sida Liu, Sitao Li•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Sociology•2024•Citada por: 1•Referências: 84

    This article presents a sociological perspective on understanding rights in China, examining the interplay between multiple myths of rights, rights abuses, and the politics of rights within various social and physical spaces. It highlights competing myths of rights held by the state, ordinary citizens, rights activists, and legal professionals. The article examines how rights abuses contribute to rights consciousness and mobilization across diffe…

  • Beyond Global Convergence

    Open Access•Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Law & Social Inquiry•2006•Citada por: 26•Referências: 21

    This article examines the localization of global legal institutions by the case study of a lower court in China's Hebei Province. Using data on the changes in the formal organizational structure, the composition of personnel, the case docket, and case dispositions in this court between 1978 and 2000, the author demonstrates that global legal institutions have survived in China's judicial practice by adapting to indigenous social and political dem…

  • Client Influence and the Contingency of Professionalism

    Open Access•Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2006•Citada por: 22•Referências: 34

    This study examines how the professional work of elite corporate lawyers is constructed by influence from different types of clients. The data presented include interviews with 24 lawyers from six elite corporate law firms in China and the author's participant-observation in one of the firms. For these elite Chinese corporate law firms, foreign corporations, state-owned enterprises, and private enterprises constitute their extremely diversified c…

  • Globalization as Boundary-Blurring

    Open Access•Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2008•Citada por: 27•Referências: 29

    The worldwide expansion of international law firms has generated regulatory battles and workplace conflicts in advanced market economies as well as developing countries. This article uses the case of China to explore the changing global-local relationship in the globalization of the legal profession and to understand the role of the government in constituting the corporate law market. The author argues that the globalization of the Chinese corpor…

  • Recursivity in Legal Change

    Open Access•Sida Liu, Terence C Halliday•ARTICLE•Law & Social Inquiry•2009•Citada por: 27•Referências: 7

    This article employs a new framework for legal change, the recursivity of law, to explain why China's criminal procedure law has cycled through numerous reforms between 1979 and 2008 without improving the conditions of lawyers' criminal defense work. The authors argue that Chinese lawyers' difficulties in criminal defense have deep roots in the recursive nature of the criminal procedure reforms. In particular, those difficulties were produced by …

  • The Politics of Crime, Punishment, and Social Order in East Asia

    Open Access•David Leheny, Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Law and Social…•2010•Citada por: 6•Referências: 11

    Recent scholarship on crime, law, and society in China and Japan has addressed the politics of globalization and legal reform in both countries, but political context is not self-revealing. The literature on China has focused too often on the role of the police in an authoritarian state without sufficiently taking into account the changing balance of power among judicial actors, which may be more important for understanding the shape and directio…

  • Chinese Justice

    Open Access•Fu Hualing, Carl Minzner et al.•BOOK•Chinese Justice•2011

    This volume analyzes whether China's thirty years of legal reform have taken root in Chinese society by examining how ordinary citizens are using the legal system in contemporary China. It is an interdisciplinary look at law in action and at legal institutions from the bottom up, that is, beginning with those at the ground level that are using and working in the legal system. It explores the emergent Chinese conception of justice - one that seeks…

  • Myth of the Social Volcano

    Open Access•Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•2011•Citada por: 4

  • Political Liberalism and Political Embeddedness

    Open Access•Sida Liu, Terence C Halliday•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2011•Citada por: 27•Referências: 17

    This article examines the meanings of politics in everyday legal practice using the case of Chinese criminal defense lawyers. Based on 194 in-depth interviews with criminal defense lawyers and other informants in 22 cities across China, we argue that lawyers' everyday politics have two faces: on the one hand, lawyers potentially can challenge state power, protect citizen rights, and pursue proceduralism in their daily work; on the other hand, the…

  • The Legal Profession as a Social Process

    Open Access•Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Law & Social Inquiry•2013•Citada por: 14•Referências: 21

    This article proposes a processual theory of the legal profession. In contrast to the structural, interactional, and collective action approaches, this processual theory conceptualizes the legal profession as a social process that changes over space and time. The social process of the legal profession includes four components: (1) diagnostic struggles over professional expertise; (2) boundary work over professional jurisdictions; (3) migration ac…

  • Law's Social Forms

    Open Access•Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Law & Social Inquiry•2014•Citada por: 9•Referências: 50

    Since the law and society movement in the 1960s, the sociology of law in the United States has been dominated by a power/inequality approach. Based on a sociological distinction between the forms and substances of law, this article outlines a “powerless” approach to the sociology of law as a theoretical alternative to the mainstream power/inequality approach. Following Simmel and the Chicago School of sociology, this new approach analyzes the leg…

  • Migration and Social Structure

    Open Access•Sida Liu, Lily Liang et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Policy•2014•Citada por: 8•Referências: 50

    This article uses the case ofChinese migrant lawyers to examine how the spatial mobility of individual practitioners shapes the social structure of the profession. Drawing on data from 261 interviews conducted in twelveChinese provinces during 2004–2010, the 2009ChineseLegalEnvironmentSurvey, lawyer yearbooks, and other public sources, the authors examine the patterns, causes, outcomes, and structural consequences ofChinese lawyers' internal migr…

  • The Trial of Li Zhuang

    Open Access•Sida Liu, Lily Liang et al.•ARTICLE•Asian Journal of Law and Society•2014•Citada por: 5•Referências: 8

    The Chinese judicial system has long been influenced by a populist legal ideology that prioritizes public accountability and political legitimacy over professional autonomy. In recent years, however, the Chinese legal profession has begun to mobilize collectively, albeit episodically, to challenge this populism. Drawing on legal documents, interviews, media reports, and online discussions, this paper provides a scholarly analysis of the Li Zhuang…

  • The Fall and Rise of Law and Social Science in China

    Open Access•Sida Liu, Zhizhou Wang•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Law and Social…•2015•Referências: 11

    This article traces the three waves of law and social science studies in contemporary China and examines the current status of this rapidly differentiating interdisciplinary field. Whereas the first two waves of studies subsided without generating a nationwide law and society movement, the most recent wave is rapidly changing the landscape of Chinese legal scholarship through empirical research. Four emerging subareas of Chinese sociolegal studie…

  • Boundary Work and Exchange

    Open Access•Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Symbolic Interaction•2015•Citada por: 9•Referências: 38

    This article develops a processual theory of boundary work and exchange for understanding the emergence and transformation of social structures such as professions and their state regulatory regimes. It argues that social boundaries are often ambiguous and elastic areas, and their social construction involves multiple forms of boundary work (boundary making, boundary blurring, and boundary maintenance) as well as the process of exchange that inte…

  • Criminal Defense in China

    Open Access•Sida Liu, Terence C Halliday•BOOK•Criminal Defense in China•2016

    Criminal Defense in China studies empirically the everyday work and political mobilization of defense lawyers in China. It builds upon 329 interviews across China, and other social science methods, to investigate and analyze the interweaving of politics and practice in five segments of the practicing criminal defense bar in China from 2005 to 2015. This book is the first to examine everyday criminal defense work in China as a political project. T…

  • Discussion Law & Society Review at Fifty

    Open Access•J J Savelsberg, Terence C Halliday et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2016•Citada por: 6•Referências: 6

    This contribution presents a series of statements on the future of publishing by the Law & Society Review and the Law & Society Association generally. Framed by the first author's introductory and concluding comments are contributions by Halliday, Liu, Morrill, Seron, and Silbey. This debate, based on a LSR 50th anniversary panel held at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the LSA, is intended to open up a broader conversation among members of the Associa…

  • Mapping the Ecology of China's Corporate Legal Sector

    Open Access•Sida Liu, David M Trubek et al.•ARTICLE•Asian Journal of Law and Society•2016•Citada por: 3•Referências: 59

    Globalization is rapidly changing the landscape of law practice in China, especially its corporate legal sector. This article reports on the preliminary findings of the China research of the Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies (GLEE) Project-a comparative study that examines how globalization is reshaping the market for legal services in important emerging economies and how these developments are contributing to the transformation of t…

  • Field and Ecology

    Open Access•Sida Liu, Mustafa Emirbayer•ARTICLE•Sociological Theory•2016•Citada por: 55•Referências: 39

    This article offers a theoretical comparison between field and ecology, as developed by Pierre Bourdieu and the Chicago School of sociology. While field theory and ecological theory share similar conceptualizations of actors, positions, and relations, and while they converge in their views on structural isomorphism, temporality, and social psychology, they are quite different on several other scores: power and inequality, endogeneity, heterogenei…

  • The Ecology of Organizational Growth

    Sida Liu, Hongqi Wu•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2016•Citada por: 9•Referências: 51

    In the global legal services market, China has some of the youngest law firms but also some of the largest. In the early 21st century, several Chinese law firms have grown into mega law firms, with thousands of lawyers in a large number of domestic and overseas offices. This study uses the case of Chinese law firms to develop an ecological theory of organizational growth following the Chicago school of sociology. The authors argue that firms coex…

  • Overlapping Ecologies

    Sida Liu•ARTICLE•Sociology of Development•2017

    The sociology of professions has derived most of its theories from empirical cases in the Global North. Despite the growing number of empirical studies on professionals in developing countries, the intersection between professions and development has rarely been theorized. This article uses the case of legal services professionals in China to outline an ecological theory of professions and development. It argues that, in the Global South, profess…

  • The Elastic Ceiling

    Open Access•Chunyan Zheng, Zheng Chunyan et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2017•Citada por: 16•Referências: 56

    Since the 1990s, the number of women in Chinese courts has been increasing steadily. Many women judges have risen to mid-level leadership positions, such as division chiefs and vice-chiefs, in the judicial bureaucracy. However, it remains difficult for women to be promoted to high-level leadership positions, such as vice-presidents and presidents. What explains the stratified patterns of career mobility for women in Chinese courts? In this articl…

  • Beyond the Manifesto

    Open Access•Lily Liang, Sida Liu•CHAPTER•The Palgrave Handbook of…•2018

  • Association between Ambient Temperatures and Mental Disorder Hospitalizations in a Subtropical City

    Open Access•Emily Ying Yang Chan, Holly Ching Yu Lam et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2018

    Background : Mental disorders have been found to be positively associated with temperature in cool to cold climatic regions but the association in warmer regions is unclear. This study presented the short-term association between temperatures and mental disorder hospitalizations in a subtropical city with a mean annual temperature over 21 °C. Methods : Using Poisson-generalized additive models and distributed-lagged nonlinear models, daily mental…

  • Presentation

    Open Access•Sida Liu, T L Adams•ARTICLE•Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue…•2018

  • Planning of a Health Emergency Disaster Risk Management Programme for a Chinese Ethnic Minority Community

    Open Access•Greta Tam, Emily Ying Yang Chan et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2019

    Rural populations living in poverty are the most vulnerable to disaster. Despite this increased risk of recurrent disaster, previous disaster experience is not a good predictor for disaster preparedness in these populations. This was evidenced on 31 August 2012, when a major flood occurred in Sichuan, China. A health needs assessment carried out in December 2012 showed that residents of Hongyan village, a Yi-minority community in Sichuan lacked d…

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