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A political scientist's study of how modern China treats its animals, covering the wildlife trade, bear farming, animal agriculture, the fight over dog meat, and the activists pushing for change. Li traces the crisis to decades of breakneck economic growth and documents China's own centuries-old traditions of compassion toward animals; the case against blaming Chinese culture is one of the strongest threads in the book.

A scholar of Indian religions traces ahimsa, the ancient discipline of nonviolence, from its Jain origins through Hindu and Buddhist traditions and into East Asia, then follows it forward into modern vegetarianism, animal protection, and environmental thought. The book is a standing answer to anyone who claims compassion for animals is a Western import; Asia has carried this principle for over two thousand years.

A social psychologist's introduction to carnism, her name for the invisible belief system that teaches a culture to love some animals and eat others. The mechanisms she describes, the numbing, the looking away, the sorting of animals into categories that decide their fate, are the same ones that let organized cruelty operate in plain sight.

The report that mapped this industry: 5,480 videos of animal cruelty documented on YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok over thirteen months, and the advertising money that keeps them profitable. This is the industry we investigate, laid out with data, platform policies, and the reporting systems that fail; it remains the clearest public accounting of how abuse content pays.

Three Chinese law scholars work through more than 2,700 criminal judgments to show how a code with no animal cruelty offense still reaches abusers, with courts stretching property, public safety, and market charges to cover the gap. The heart of it for our work is its account of the torture-video industry, the coded groups, the pricing, the livestreamed sessions, and its argument that two existing cybercrime statutes could prosecute the producers and sellers right now, without waiting for an animal protection law to pass. Peer-reviewed and open access; the clearest map so far of the legal terrain our Chinese cases sit in.