References

Below is a list of references organized by topics.

General Bilingual (En-Chi) Glossaries of Legal Terms

Hong Kong Department of Justice Combined Glossary 62,816 entries of legal terms commonly used in HK

The Ricci Dictionary of Chinese Law Online 23,765 entries of legal terms and terms often used in a legal context; IU users do not have access to the full text online, but searching an English term/phrase will return a list of related Chinese terms with Pinyin.

China Law Translate (CLT) interactive, crowd-sourced glossary of legal terms created and maintained by Jeremy Daum at the China Center, Yale Law School

Reviews of Methodology

Lisa F. M. Ansems and Kees van den Bos. “Empirical Research on Law and Society.” Journal of Law and Society 49, no.1 (2022): 218-225, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12342.

Joachim J. Savelsberg and Lara L. Cleveland. “Historical Traditions and Contemporary Updates” and “Newer Theoretical Traditions.” Oxford Bibliographies entry on law and society.

Liu, Sida and Wang, Zhizhou. “The Fall and Rise of Law and Social Science in China.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 11, (2015): 373-394, doi: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-120814-121329.

The Political Context

Susan V. Lawrence and Mari Y. Lee (visualization), China’s Political System in Charts *search for the most recent update in Congressional Research Service Reports on Foreign Policy and Regional Affairs

Center for China Analysis, Decoding the 20th Party Congress

Chinese Legal Structure

JuriGlobe Alphabetical Index of the Political Entities and Corresponding Legal Systems

Mary Rumsey, Globalex guide to researching foreign law

PKULaw.com, Legal System of China a guide for users of PKULaw by UCHastings

Joan Lijun Liu, Finding Chinese Law on the Internet

China Justice Observer, sponsored by the Academy of Comprehensive Rule of Law at China University of Political Science and Law

JunHe Legal Updates

Mark Allen Cohen, China IPR and Aaron Wininger, China IP Law Update (blogs)

Law Yearbook of China/中国法律年鉴

CNKI Legal Database (CLKD)/中国法律知识资源总库

Dispute Resolution

中国司法档案数据库江津卷

AI-generated evaluation of divorce disputes offered by China Justice Big Data Service Platform/中国司法大数据服务网

Lawmaking

Benjamin van Rooij and Annemieke van den Dool. “Lawmaking in China: Understanding Substantive and Procedural Changes.” China Law and Society Review 1, nos.1-2 (2016): 5-60, doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/25427466-00101002

NPC Observer Glossary on lawmaking NPC Observer list of effective laws in the People’s Republic of China (cf.国家法律法规数据库)

司法部立法意见征集系统

Legal Consciousness

Lynette J. Chua and David M. Engel, “Legal consciousness” in Routledge Handbook of Law and Society. New York: Routledge, 2021.

Wang, Di and Liu, Sida. “Doing Ethnography on Social Media: A Methodological Reflection on the Study of Online Groups in China.” Qualitative Inquiry 27, 8–9 (2021): 977–987, doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004211014610.

全国报刊索引/The National Index to Chinese Newspapers & Periodicals (NICNP)

China Core Newspapers series (G) Politics/ Military Affairs/ Law

大成老旧期刊全文数据库/Dacheng Pre-1949 Periodical Full-Text Database

Legal Mobilization

Wang, Di and Liu, Sida. “Performing Artivism: Feminists, Lawyers, and Online Legal Mobilization in China.” Law & Social Inquiry 45, no. 3 (2020): 678–705. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/lsi.2019.64.

Zhu, Han. “Rights Movements, Civil Disobedience and Civil Unrest: Social Movements and Constitutionalism in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan” in Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law in Greater China. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Legal Professions

Liu, Sida. “With or without the Law: The Changing Meaning of Ordinary Legal Work in China, 1979–2003.” Chinese Justice: Civil Dispute Resolution in Contemporary China, edited by Margaret Y. K. Woo and Mary E. Gallagher, 234–66. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511977008.010.

Basic Statistics on Lawyers, Notarization and Mediation: section 24.19 in China Statistical Yearbook/中国统计年鉴 compiled by National Bureau of Statistics of China. Regional statistics are available at China Data Insight/中国经济社会大数据研究平台(CSYD)

Statistical analysis of legal services by the Ministry of Justice

中国律师网 (All China Lawyers Association) and regional Lawyers Associations (monthly updates of Beijing Lawyers Association, for example)

Chinese Law School syllabi made available by Law and the Social Sciences Wechat Official Account/法律和社会科学微信公众号 (an example)

Courts

Zhang, Taisu. “Disaggregating the Court: A Methodological Survey of Research on the Supreme People’s Court of China,” China Law and Society Review 2, 2 (2017): 154-176. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/25427466-0020002.

Susan Finder, Supreme People’s Court Monitor

Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor, SPC Guidance on Similar Case Searches

English Translations of Organs, Job Titles, and Workplaces of People’s Courts issued by the SPC

SPC Judicial Data; 中华人民共和国最高人民法院公报 (1985 —)

China Judgments Online/中国裁判文书网 A centralized website launched in 2014 to make court documents accessible; requires a Chinese mobile number for account registration. Data analyzed and visualized on China Justice Big Data Service Platform/中国司法大数据服务网

OpenLaw/开放法律联盟 An open source case database launched in 2014 by an NGO in Shanghai to provide judicial decisions (sourced mostly from China Judgments Online but also websites of local courts) and guiding cases for legal professionals, scholars and students; requires a Chinese mobile number for account registration.

China Court Trial Online/中国庭审公开网 *A centralized website launched in 2016 to make trials at courts across the country publicly accessible. All restrictions of China Judgments Online apply here. No captions for trial recordings.

China Maritime Trial/中国海事审判

China Judicial Process Information Online/中国审判流程信息公开网 *A service-oriented website that does not require registration.

CourtData Database of Judicial Transparency/司法透明度数据库(地图)

Statistics on Court Cases, section 12 in Law Yearbook of China/中国法律年鉴 and sections 24.13-18 in China Statistical Yearbook/中国统计年鉴

Criminal Justice

Phil He, Daniel Curran, and Zhang, Lenin. “Methods of Inquiry” in The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Criminology. London: Routledge, 2013.

NYU USAL’s translation of China’s 2013 Criminal Procedure Law and glossary for Criminal Procedure Terms

Duihua/对话, a human rights group on human rights in China

UBC Xinjiang Documentation Project

Samm Sacks, Graham Webster, and Chen, Qiheng. “Five Important Takeaways From China’s Draft Data Security Law” (2020)

Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC)’s statutory basis and current regulations; En translations by Stanford University’s DigiChina Project *CAC will be solely an organ of censorship when the new national data bureau takes over digital development, see Chen, Qiheng’s article “China’s new National Data Bureau”

China Digital Times, list of Sensitive Sina Weibo Search Terms

China Digital Times, glossary of language used by Chinese netizens to dodge censors

Legal Pluralism

Roy L. Sturgeon and Sergio Stone, “One Country, Two Systems” of Legal Research: Finding the Law of China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Hong Kong e-Legislation/電子版香港法例

Basic Law Court Case Database

Matthew S. Erie. “Muslim Mandarins in Chinese Courts: Dispute Resolution, Islamic Law, and the Secular State in Northwest China.” Law & Social Inquiry 40, no. 4 (2015): 1001–30. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24545783.