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Mao Yushi 茅于轼 b.1929
Mao Yushi is a liberal economist, president of Humanism Economics Society, Honorary President of Unirule Institute of Economics in China. He is known for his work in classical liberalism and free-market economics. Mao criticized the communist and totalitarian policies of Mao Zedong. Beijing began a “crackdown on dissent” by banning the publication of his works […]
Liu Qing 刘擎 b.1963
Liu Qing is professor and chairperson at Department of Political Science, director of the Center for World Politics at East China Normal University. His main research interests lie in intellectual history and political theory. Collections and Book Chapters Liu, Qing, and McCormick, Barrett L. “Globalization and the Chinese media: technologies, content, commerce and the prospects […]
Liu Junning 劉軍寧 b. 1961
Liu studied politics at Peking University under Zhao Baoxu, together with Yu Keping and He Zengke, and is a liberal/libertarian. Liu lost his position at Shekeyuan for having published criticisms of Jiang Zemin’s policies at the time of the celebration of the 100 year anniversary of Peking University. After a period at Harvard, he became […]
Jin Guantao 金观涛 b.1947
Jin Guantao has been the chair professor in the Department of Chinese Literature in National ChengChi University, Taiwan （台湾国立政治大学） since 2008. Prof. Jin was the Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Chinese Studies in the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1989 to 2008, when he built ‘the Database for the Study of Modern […]
Ji Weidong 季卫东 b.1957
Ji Weidong is Dean and Presiding Chair Professor of KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）, China, since 2008. He has studied legal culture, law and social change in Asia, focusing constitutional law, judicial reform as well as legal profession. Journal Articles Ji, Weidong. “The Judicial Reform in China: The Status Quo and Future Directions.” […]
He Weifang 賀衛方 b. 1960
He Weifang is a law professor at Peking University, chief editor of “Chinese and Foreign Law”, and an activist striving to reform the Chinese judicial system. Before being given tenure at PKU in 1992, he was the editor at Comparative Law 比较法研究 and Peking University Law Journal 中外法学, both published by the university. Aside from his […]
He Qinglian 何清漣 b. 1956
He Qinglian is a Chinese author and economist, most prominently known for her critical view of Chinese society and media controls in China. “The Pitfalls of Modernization” (现代化的陷阱), her most famous book which concerns corruption in China’s economic reform of the 1990s , sold over 100,000 copies in China and won acclaim from both the […]
He Huaihong 何怀宏 b.1954
He is a professor at the Department of Philosophy, Peking University, and is leading the Ethics group in the department. He obtained his doctoral degree from Renmin University. His researches mostly focus on Ethics (moral philosophy，伦理学) and Social History. Also, He has translated several Politics and Philosophy classics to Chinese which has prominent impact on […]
Ge Zhaoguang 葛兆光 b. 1950
Ge Zhaoguang is Professor at the National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies and the Department of History at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He received his BA and MA from the Department of Chinese Literature & Language, Peking University in 1982 and 1984. From 1992 to 2006, he was a faculty member of Tsinghua University, University […]
Gao Quanxi 高全喜 b. 1962
Gao is a law professor and Dean of Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at Beihang University (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronaustics 北京航空航天大学). He researches on Nomology (法理学), Political Philosophy, and Constitutionalism. Books Gao, Quanxi, et al. The Road to the Rule of Law in Modern China. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin […]