Cases of domestic violence in China point to a legal system that looks good on paper but is failing victims because of a lack ...

On the same day that Bo Xilai, China’s infamous disgraced politician, was formally charged with corruption, embezzlement and abuse of power, a clutch of Chinese activists was briefly detained at a ...

U.S. editors Ankit Panda and Zachary Keck are joined by Shannon Tiezzi to discuss China's fourth plenum. Zhou Yongkang's case ties in with Xi Jinping's larger vision for the rule of law in China.

In classical Chinese law, cruelty disrupted cosmic order and sentience carried moral weight. Under Xi Jinping, legality has been restructured to preempt such claims entirely. This third essay in the ...

On April 30, 2025, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) issued the first draft of the Ecological and Environmental Code (the Draft Code) for public comment. This legislation ...

Benike, a U.S. Army veteran, designs silicone placemats to help parents keep their babies' items off the floor. Her product gained popularity after a "Shark Tank" appearance. However, the decision to ...

During a visit to the Pudong New Area on Tuesday, Global Times reporters found the district to be a microcosm of the city's ...

Last spring, while wandering the stacks at Peking University’s law library, I stumbled across an unusual book on China’s property law. Authored by the famous law professor S. Francis Liu and two of ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Jerome A. Cohen was an academic and legal pioneer who almost single-handedly created the field of Chinese legal studies in the United States ...

This week, many organizations and media outlets commemorated the tenth anniversary of the 709 (July 9) or "Black Friday" crackdown, a coordinated detention of more than 300 rights lawyers and ...

There are mounting concerns over the well-being and whereabouts of Zhang Zhan, the former lawyer-turned-citizen-journalist whose reporting from Wuhan in early 2020 was essential to lifting the lid on ...