Abstract: Chinese Real Right Law: Principle, Policy and Practice, written by professor Shen Weixing is not a traditional legal textbook. It comprehensively reflects the changes in the legal system of real rights and incorporates the key insights developed by the author through long term research on the same topic. The theoretical value of this book is found in the perspective that the real right law interacts with the socio-economic development and it proposes a research method combining both vertical and horizontal dimensions to help researchers identify the institutional role played by the legal system of real rights. The book also guides legal practitioners to pay attention to changes in the real right law and apply the relevant rules of the related part in Chinese Civil Code correctly. The book does not address the changes in possession and controllability due to the technological advancements, however it might be a purposeful decision made by the author to stick on the main task the book trying to accomplish. Overall, the book depicts the trajectory of self-transformation and self-transcendence of law by using the legal system of real rights as an example.