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.

Saturday, January 03, 2026

Now Available--Vol 35 No 157 Journal of Contemporary China (Jan. 2026)

I am delighted to pass along a message from Professor Suisheng Zhao (赵穗生), and Editor of the Journal of Contemporary China (JCC) announcing the publication of Volume 35, Issue 157, January 2026 issue of The Journal of Contemporary China (JCC) is now available online. If the library of your institution subscribes to the JCC, you can view the full text of the article and others online at:http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjcc20/current.

For your convenience, below is the Table of Contents of the January 2026 issue of The Journal of Contemporary China.

Journal of Contemporary China

Volume 35, Issue 157, January 2026

China’s Response to COVID-19 and Its International Implications (I)

How COVID-19 has Impacted American Attitudes Toward China: A Study on Twitter

Gavin G. Cook, Junming Huang & Yu Xie

Pages: 1097-1113

Weibo Criticism of Fang Fang’s Wuhan Lockdown Diary as an ‘Enemy Within’: Rhetorical Tactics and Discourse Practices of Voluntary Propaganda in China During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Shiru Wang, Daan Wang & Yuk Tai Siu

Pages: 1114-1131

The Rule of Discourse: How Ideas and Institutions Shape China’s COVID Policy

Zijing Zhao & Kaiping Zhang

Pages: 1132-1152

China and Africa: Soft Power, Grand Strategy, and International Alignment (II)

China, Africa, and the Market for Donkeys: Why Did the African Union Ban the Ejiao-Linked Donkey Hide Trade?

Lauren A. Johnston

Pages: 1153-1169

Testbed or Thoroughfare? Africa’s Place in China’s Evolving Grand Strategy

Benjamin Barton & Pádraig Carmody

Pages: 1170-1182

Is China Truly the Spokesperson for Developing Countries? An Examination of China’s Voting Position with Africa in the United Nations Security Council

Hao Wu

Pages: 1183-1199

Income Inequality and Its Consequences in Contemporary China

Attitudes Toward Income Inequality in China: Revisiting the Concern About Inequality from a Comparative Perspective

Francisco Olivos & Miguel Lattz

Pages: 1200-1221

Reforms and Inequality: Examining the Impact of China’s Primary Distribution System Reforms on Wage Inequality (1989–2015)

Mengdan Li & Longchao Liu

Pages: 1222-1246

Research Articles

How is a BRI Project Proposal Softened and Materialized? An Examination of the China–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan Railway

Dawei Liu & Youxian Jin

Pages: 1247-1266

The U.S. - China Trade War: Who is More Injured?

Lixia Wang, Lin Sha, Yingqian Gu & Fangyuan Guo

Pages: 1267-1283

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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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