The Chinese state systematically denounces and represses Chinese citizen complainants'
quests for justice as antisocial, unharmonious, un-Chinese and sometimes even as insane …

In the spring of 2009, a professor of forensic psychiatry at Peking University triggered an
incident that became widely known throughout China. In an interview with a domestic …

Since the mid-2000s, the Chinese media has publicised cases acknowledged by the
government of the People's Republic of China ('PRC') as instances of wrongful conviction …

With an ever-increasing number of reports denouncing systematic mistreatments against
Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities detained in Xinjiang 're-education'camps, the …

In recent years, a growing number of scholars have remarked on the importance of religious
belief and practice in Chinese legal culture. We now have important studies of the dynamic …

Abstract In July 2008, Yang Jia killed six police officers and wounded several others. He was
convicted of murder and executed the following November. But he died as a victim of …

In recent years, China has instituted a series of legal reforms that may be conducive to
elevating the professional skills of actors in the judicial system, but the reforms fail to …

Unyielding complainants (shangfang dingzihu 上访钉子户) are shrewd and stubborn
individuals who have endured countless ordeals and indignities in order to trigger a …

No matter how the Chinese side may justify itself, public opinion at home and abroad is
aware that the campaign to slander Vietnam for ostracizing, persecuting, and expelling …

In the post-Tiananmen period, the criminal justice system of the People's Republic of China
(PRC) has been in the limelight in a number of different contexts. On the one hand, China …