I just came across this paper, posted April 21, 2020 on the Social Science Research Network: Lin, Ching-Fu; Wu, Chien-Huei;…
After my last post on Chinese acquittal rates, I heard from Prof. David Johnson of the University of Hawai‘i (whose…
I’ve been looking through a recent massive collection of Chinese court statistics going from 1949 to 2016 (人民法院司法统计历史典籍) (“People’s Court…
The lawsuit filed by the Missouri attorney-general against various Chinese entities seeking compensation for COVID-19-related damages, unlike previous similar lawsuits,…
I’m very pleased to have signed up Dr. Yu-Jie Chen as a co-blogger. Yu-Jie, who will join the Academia Sinica…
[Revised March 11, 2020 to remove repetitious material. My thanks to an alert reader.] Here is a blockbuster report from…
Caixin recently published a good piece on COVID-19; consistent with the Chinese government’s attitude toward good information about this disease,…
“Party, government, military, civilian, and academic, east, west, south, north, and center, the party leads everything” – Chinese Communist Party,…
It is difficult to overstate the egregiousness of the Chinese government’s latest move against Gui Minhai, the Swedish writer and…
Li Wenliang is the doctor who first began spreading word of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan (through a WeChat group)…