ABSTRACT
The Western scholarly literature on transnational crime is robust particularly as it deals with transnational crime committed by ethnic Chinese and their criminal organizations outside China, such as in the various Chinatowns in the United States.1 However, when it comes to analysis of the domestic PRC understandings of ‘organized crime’, the Western literature is very modest indeed.2 There is good reason, therefore, to introduce and study the basics in terms of how Chinese jurisprudence has defined ‘organized crime’ and how this definition is reflected in related national legislative stipulation and judicial and administrative interpretation.
