The answer is very simple. Most (not all) of the "法学硕士" programs (i.e., LLM degree programs) in US law schools are designed for foreign educated lawyers to get a sampling of US legal education. It is one-year program. Most states in the US (Cal and NY among the exceptions) do NOT allow foreign lawyers with such an easily obtained US law degree to sit for their state bar exams (hence, not able to practice law in those states). In contrast, most US lawyers need to go through a 3-year very rigid J.D. program before being eligible for taking the bar exams. Quite often, the foreign LLM students are taking classes separately from the U.S. J.D. students.
One the one hand, the one-year LLM program is just for foreign lawyers. They are supposed to already possess quite some legal knowledge, and therefore do not need to spend 3 years taking all legal courses. On the other hand, for foreign lawyers (esp. those who are not from English language background), they are unlike to survive the 3-year J.D. courses (even if they want to) because of the grueling nature of J.D. training.
So why so many Chinese in the LLM programs? The obvious answer is that it is very attractive to Chinese lawyers (or law graduates) as they can quickly and easily (relative to J.D. students) get a "gold plating" from US law schools and show for it on their resumes.
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