Law at the End of the Day

Larry Catá Backer's comments on current issues in transnational law and policy. These essays focus on the constitution of regulatory communities (political, economic, and religious) as they manage their constituencies and the conflicts between them. The context is globalization. This is an academic field-free zone: expect to travel "without documents" through the sometimes strongly guarded boundaries of international relations, constitutional, international, comparative, and corporate law.

Monday, January 06, 2025

Just Published Journal of Contemporary China 34(151)--"New Dynamics in Central-Local Relations Under Xi Jinping", guest edited by Mingjiang Li and Hongzhou Zhang

Suisheng Zhao (赵穗生), Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver and Editor, Journal of Contemporary China (JCC) has just announced the publication of Volume 34, Issue 151 of the Journal of Contemporary China. The issue includes essays focused on the theme "New Dynamics in Central-Local Relations Under Xi Jinping", guest edited by Mingjiang Li and Hongzhou Zhang.

If the library of your institution subscribes to the JCC, you can view full text of the article and others online HERE.

For your convenience, below is the Table of Contents of the January 2025 issue of The Journal of Contemporary China.

Journal of Contemporary China

Volume 34, Issue 151, January 2025

New Dynamics in Central-Local Relations Under Xi Jinping (I)

Guest Editor: Mingjiang Li and Hongzhou Zhang

Policy Feedback Loop: Central-Local Interactions in China’s International Economic Policy

Xirui Li and Mingjiang Li

Pages: 1-18

Development of New Generation of Artificial Intelligence in China: When Beijing’s Global Ambitions Meet Local Realities

Shaleen Khanal, Hongzhou Zhang and Araz Taeihagh

Pages: 19-42

Diverse Patterns of Paradiplomacy by Chinese Local Governments: A Comparative Case Study of Zhejiang and Yunnan Provinces

Xiaojing Ye

Pages 43-60

The COVID Effects in China: State Mobilization and Social Resistance

The World Is Grateful to China: Chinese Government Discourse During COVID-19

Jason Cong Lin and Liz Jackson

Pages 61-78

What Makes a COVID Hero in China? —A Glimpse of Heroism in Xi Jinping’s New Era

Jingqing Yang

Pages 79-95

Zero-COVID or Coexistence? It is a Question: Examining Ideological Factors Underlying the Chinese Public’s Attitude to Health Policies

Xi Luo, Hepeng Jia and Jingjie Qian

Pages 96-116

The Rally Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the White Paper Movement in China

Yue Guan, Lei Guang, Lianjiang Li and Yanchuan Liu

Pages 117-128

Research Articles

Market Maker of First Resort – The People’s Bank of China and the Rise of Market-Based Banking

Robert Pauls

Pages 129-144

China’s Promotion of Knowledge Diffusion in Africa — a Case Study on Ethiopia’s Manufacturing Sector

Tang Xiaoyang

Pages 145-160

When Socialist Legacy Meets International Norms: Gender Quota Adoption and Institutional Change in China

Xinhui Jiang and Yunyun Zhou

Pages 161-180

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At the end of the day, law?

. . . . Emperors and kings

Are but obeyed in their several provinces,

Nor can they raise the wind or rend the clouds;

But his domain that exceeds in this

Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man.

A sound magician is a mighty god.

* * *

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,

And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,

That sometimes grew within this learned man.

Faustus is gone; regard his hellish fall,

Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise

Only to wonder at unlawful things,

Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits

To practise more than heavenly power permits.

Christopher Marlowe, "Dr. Faustus" (before 1593)

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