In memory of Jerome A. Cohen (1930-2025): Jerry, as I remember [追念孔傑榮教授(1930–2025):我記憶中的Jerry]

The passing of Professor Jerry Cohen is a profound loss, not only to the field of Chinese law studies but…

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A dark echo of transnational repression: Taiwan 40 years ago

Phelim Kine’s China Watcher in Politico this issue features “When Taiwan Assassinated an American Citizen,” drawing attention to the 40th…

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An appeal on behalf of lawyer Tang Jitian

Members of the academic, research and legal professional communities are invited to sign this appeal on behalf of Chinese human…

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“Human Rights in the Chinese Administration of Justice 2020” and some noteworthy trends

While we’re all busy watching developments in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, it’s also important to keep other major human rights and…

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Solidarity statement on behalf of scholars sanctioned for their work on China / 学界联署声明:声援因从事中国研究而被制裁之学者

Here is an important statement that I think scholars and researchers in the China field and beyond should read and…

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Book review: “The Trouble with Taiwan: History, the United States and a Rising China.” By Kerry Brown and Kalley Wu Tzu Hui. London: Zed Books, 2019.

Here’s a book review that I wrote almost a year ago, and it’s just now published (link here). Reading it…

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2020年〈中國司法人權觀察〉(Human Rights in the Chinese Administration of Justice 2020)

Featured image credit: Badiucao; twitter.com/badiucao/status/498103689899278336/photo/1 2020年的〈中國司法人權觀察〉已經完成,可在此下載。 這篇文章將刊登在臺灣民主基金會每年出版的《中國人權觀察報告》(往年報告連結在此),特別感謝陸梅吉(Margaret Lewis)教授擔任評論人,對文章提出寶貴建議。 沒有時間讀整份報告的話,以下是三千字的摘要。 這是我第三年,也是最後一年的〈中國司法人權觀察〉,感謝那些為中國人權努力的人。 Here is my piece on human rights in the Chinese…

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New article:《港版國安法》:香港法治的破洞、人權的缺口 (The National Security Law for Hong Kong: Infringements of Hong Kong’s Rule of Law and Human Rights)

For the past four months, I’ve written a series of Chinese-language essays about the National Security Law (NSL) for Hong…

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A critique of Taiwan’s “humanitarian assistance action plan for Hong Kong citizens”

Yesterday the Taiwan government finally released the much-anticipated “humanitarian assistance action plan for Hong Kong citizens.” Here are the details…

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Taiwan’s meaningful participation in the World Health Organization would implement, not violate, UN principles

WHO and governments around the world would benefit from this principled reform. By Jerome A. Cohen and Yu-Jie Chen When SARS traumatized Asia…

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