After the 19th: Anti-Corruption, Clean Government and the Rule of Law
Written by Xiaoming Zhong and Jiangnan Zhu. The 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) demonstrated President Xi Jinping’s […]
Prospects for Same-sex Marriage in the PRC
Written by Elaine Jeffreys and Pan Wang. Timothy Hildebrandt (2011) first raised the hypothetical question: ‘What might motivate the PRC […]
A new torture in China
Written by Eva Pils. ‘In China, we say that for a person meditating in a cave, a day passes as […]
Leopards and Spots: Liu Xiaobo and China’s Soft Power
Written by Gary Rawnsley. What can we learn about China’s so-called soft power from the way the government behaved after […]
Persecuted (almost) to the end: Why Liu Xiaobo should be allowed to leave China
Written by Jackie Sheehan. The 11-year sentence imposed on Liu Xiaobo in December 2009 dismayed anyone who had followed his […]
“New” Cross-Border Crime between Hong Kong and China
Written by Sonny Lo. Since the return of Hong Kong to China on July 1, 1997, cross-border crimes have surfaced […]
Corruption and the Death Penalty
Written by Bin Liang. On Monday, July 4, 2016, Ling Jihua was sentenced to life imprisonment by the No. 1 […]
The Involvement of Women in Criminal Markets in China
Written by Anqi Shen and Georgios A. Antonopoulos. Following economic reforms launched in 1978, criminal markets flourished under an increasingly market-oriented […]
Violence Against the Chinese Police
Written by Suzanne E. Scoggins. Violence against the police in China has become commonplace. At least once a year, a major […]
The rise of rule by fear
Written by Eva Pils. In the course of my research on Chinese human rights lawyers over the past several years, […]
Sources for Chinese Legal Reform
Written by Kenneth Winston. It is commonly observed that Chinese legal history was guided for centuries by the idea of […]
A Review of China’s Record on Torture
Written by Margaret Lewis. When visiting Washington DC in November 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping stated that “China has made […]
China’s Study-Work School
Written by Anqi Shen. While the Chinese criminal justice system maintains punitive, youth justice in China is an exception, operating […]
What “quiet diplomacy” drowns out
Written by Jackie Sheehan. When China specialists are called upon to brief companies making their first foray into the market, […]
Migrant children in China: Identity and Stigma
Written by Mingchao Zhou. Established in the 1950s, the hukou system still controls and regulates the settlement of rural migrants […]
International engagement in China’s human rights: keeping the faith
Written by Titus Chen. July 2015 is destined to be an unforgettable time in Xi Jinping’s presidency. What befell Chinese […]
Defending the rule of law against … lawyers
Written by Jackie Sheehan. After 2014 was declared the “worst year ever” for lawyers in China, Xi Jinping hasn’t rested on his […]
Li Yan reprieved – a step forward for victims of domestic violence in China?
Written by Jackie Sheehan. It is welcome news that Li Yan, despite being sentenced to death for a second time […]
China’s market in stolen babies dates back decades
Written by Jackie Sheehan. The figures in a recent BBC report on the abduction and selling of babies and children […]
Escalating Land Protests in Yunnan
Written by Samantha Hoffman. On 14 October, ‘construction workers’ wearing auxiliary police uniforms and carrying riot shields entered Fuyou village, […]
On Ilham Tohti
Written by Jackie Sheehan. Can anyone produce a genuine, verified statement by Ilham Tohti supporting independence for Xinjiang or advocating […]
Speechless: The silencing of Gao Zhisheng is a warning to other lawyers and activists
Written by Jackie Sheehan. Gao Zhisheng left Shaya Prison in Xinjiang on 7 August 2014. He left prison; he is […]
Redefining Hong Kong SAR
Written by Daniel Garrett. While undeniably the most extensive authoritarian and arguably violent crackdown by the SAR government since the […]
Xi trains his sights on the PLA
Written by Samantha Hoffman. On 31 March, state media reported that General Gu Junshan, former deputy director of the People’s Liberation […]
Using Model Cases to Guide the Chinese Courts
Written by Susan Finder. One of the initiatives of the Supreme People’s Court (hereafter the Court) highlighted in its October […]
Xi Jinping’s Tiger Hunt
Written by Andrew Hall Wedeman. The Communist Party of China has been grappling with corruption almost from its birth. It […]
Kunming massacre sparks media war
Written by J. Michael Cole By now we’ve all heard about Saturday night’s bloodbath at the Kunming Railway Station, where […]
Xinjiang Dreams: Worrying about ethnicity
Written by David Tobin. The ethnically targeted violence of July 2009 in Ürümchi overshadowed the lead-up to the 60th anniversary […]
Beijing’s Uyghur Policy is Not Just Counter-Productive, it’s Disastrous
Written by Julie Yu-Wen Chen. When it comes to Uyghur-related incidents in China in recent years, the information we as […]
Bo Xilai and the meaning of life
Written by Jackie Sheehan. He still doesn’t get it, does he? The last top CCP figure to be removed from […]
