Fan Chunren was the second son of the renowned Northern Song statesman Fan Zhongyan. As prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, Fan Chunren had a peculiar habit. Whenever he finished his work at the government office, he would change into simple, plain clothing as a part of his daily routine. From his youth to ...
We continue the intriguing story of the heroes from China who saved a priceless heritage from extinction and became the historic English-Chinese Dictionary of Anglo-American Law. China’s forgotten luminaries Mr. Sheng Zhenwei: Author and dean of Soochow University Sheng Zhenwei (1900-1997), the first Chinese dean of Soochow University and later the law school dean, authored ...
It all began in 1993. Xue Bo graduated from the China University of Political Science and Law. One day, while searching for information on international law, he and his classmates suddenly realized that there was no applicable English-Chinese Anglo-American Law Dictionary. Anglo-American law most often refers to a region in the Americas where English is the ...
The political and diplomatic tussle between China and the U.S. does not seem to end and there are new developments almost every week. In the latest development, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted 5 people, accusing them of targeting Chinese dissidents based in the U.S. The DOJ accused the five people of attempting ...
When I was young, I often heard older people say that it’s right to be virtuous and dissolving disputes brings blessings. On the other hand, sowing discord in your family, helping someone write a letter for divorce, or to filing a lawsuit for them are all things that undermine virtue. There was once a tutor from Xiu Ning who came from ...
The investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller came to an end on Friday, March 22, with a report delivered to Attorney General William Barr. On Sunday, Barr released a 4-page summary of the report, and President Trump claimed “complete and total exoneration.” In this Q&A, ...
The Chinese character for law or way is 法 (fǎ). It is composed of two parts: 氵(shuǐ) and 去 (qù). 氵is a variant of 水 (shuǐ), the radical for water, while 去 means to go or to remove or do away with. The original form of the character 法 was 灋, which has the same ...
When animals attack, there is no formal prosecution, no court, or even a defense attorney appointed. However, this was not always the case. During the Middle Ages, animals were charged with crimes (usually murder) and were brought to court. They were appointed a lawyer and tried, just as if they were people; so yes, there ...
Grace Gao is the brave daughter of a brave man, Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng. It’s not easy being the child of a rights lawyer in China. In the video from the Oslo Freedom Forum, Grace recently described how her family was torn apart by China’s ruling communists because of her father’s rights work. ...
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