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.

Friday, March 07, 2025

Volume 34, Issue 152, March 2025 issue of The Journal of Contemporary China (JCC) is now published

Suisheng Zhao (赵穗生), Professor and Editor, Journal of Contemporary China (JCC) has announced the publication of Volume 34, Issue 152, March 2025 issue of The Journal of Contemporary China (JCC) is now published available online. For your convenience, below is the Table of Contents of the March 2025 issue of The Journal of Contemporary China.

Journal of Contemporary China

Volume 34, Issue 152, March 2025

China’s Coercive Statecraft and Economic Diplomacy

Legality, Legitimacy and Institutionalization: China’s Dilemma of Sanctions and Economic Coercion

Yiying (Gloria) Xiong

Pages: 181-197

Profit or Power: Determinants of Chinese Financing to the Developing World

Rodrigo Moura

Pages: 198-213

China’s Economic Diplomacy Towards the Gulf Cooperation Council States

Mordechai Chaziza

Pages: 214-231

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

Guest Editors: Mingjiang Li and Hongzhou Zhang

Designated Accountability: Pair-Making Mechanisms and Evolving Central-Local Relations in China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation

Zhongyuan Wang

Pages 232-252

Limited Power-Sharing in a Personalized Regime: Xi Jinping’s Strategic Retreat from Local Politics

Jonghyuk Lee

Pages: 253-270

Embedding the Party in State and Society: From Integrated to Embedded Domination During China’s COVID-19 Crisis

Stefanie Kam Li Yee

Pages 271-294

Political Resilience and Participation in China (I)

Foundation of the Political Resilience in China: A Perspective of State Capacity

Zhan Shengchen and Xie Yue

Pages 295-311

Empathetic Solidarity: How Chinese English-Language Media Portrays Urban Community Participation

Felicia F. Tian, Yating Yu and Lan Zhang

Pages 312-327

Research Articles

Innovating Repression: Policy Experimentation and the Evolution of Beijing’s Re-Education Campaign in Xinjiang

Adrian Zenz

Pages 328-349

Explaining ‘Grey Capital’: The Sociology of Transnational Chinese Companies and Crime in Thailand

Gregory V. Raymond

Pages 350-365

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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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Globalization: Law and Policy will include an integrated body
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