Recently in the course of some writing I’ve had to address the problem of “essentially contested concepts.” But because the…
The Financial Times reports that the Dagong bond rating agency has been taken over by a state-owned investment company after…
It’s my pleasure to welcome two new co-bloggers here: Ling Li and Nils Pelzer. Ling is a Lecturer in the…
I’ve never been to Bard College, but it has always been a little special to me, since that’s where Donald…
The Xinjiang Initiative is a project to raise awareness about the terrible things happening in Xinjiang right now. I urge…
A recent discussion on a Chinese politics discussion group of which I’m a member raised the issue of whataboutism. What…
[CORRECTION JAN. 8 2018: I have learned that the writer is a she. Please deem all relevant pronouns as changed…
Yesterday I blogged about the response of He Weifang and others to the sudden expulsion from Beijing of large numbers…
Criminal Reconciliation in Contemporary China: An Empirical and Analytical Enquiry, by Jue Jiang. Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, US: Edward Elgar…
The Chinese Procuratorate, which exercises a general supervisory jurisdiction under the Constitution over the application of law, has now stepped…