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Reference Work Entry In depth
Chinese Legal Thought: Mohist School
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Reference Work Entry In depth
Translating Legal Language Between Chinese and English
It is commonly acknowledged that legal translation, especially legal translation between Chinese and English, is difficult. It is a complex and special type of linguistic activity involving mediation and cross...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Chinese Legal Thought: Mohist School
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Translating Legal Language Between Chinese and English
It is commonly acknowledged that legal translation, especially legal translation between Chinese and English, is difficult. It is a complex and special type of linguistic activity involving mediation and cross...
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Article
Desperately Seeking ‘Justice’ in Classical Chinese: On the Meanings of Yi
This essay sets out to search for an equivalent Chinese word to the English word ‘justice’ in classical Chinese language, through ancient Chinese philosophical texts, imperial codes and idioms. The study found...
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Book
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Introduction: Animal Protection in an Interconnected World
In our increasingly interconnected and wired world, some of the biggest global stars have been nonhuman animals. On blogs, on Facebook and all around the Internet, claws and clicks go hand in hand or paw in pa...
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Wildlife Crimes and Legal Protection of Wildlife in China
The chapter focuses on crimes against wildlife as illustrated by ivory trade in China and its wildlife law in an attempt to identify some of the problems in the current legal protection regime for wildlife. It...
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Book
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Last Words …
Zhuangzi was strolling on a bridge over the River Hao and saw fish swimming in the water underneath. 1
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When Animals and Humans Meet in the Middle Kingdom: Introduction
In 2007, a photo depicting a dozen caged monkeys awaiting their fate at a medical laboratory in China won the best-photo prize in the National Geographic Society’s Global Photography Contest. The homemade-look...
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Happy Fish and Royal Workers: Animals in Traditional Chinese Philosophy and Law
Michel Foucault (1926–84), in the preface to The Order of Things: Archaeology of the Human Sciences , cites an entry taken from a certain Chinese encyclopaedia, The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge , in...
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Crouching Tiger Bones, Hidden Elephant Tusks: Wildlife Crimes
For a number of years now, thousands upon thousands of Chinese workers have been building roads, constructing timber mills and exploring and extracting oil and minerals in Africa. In 2009, the Chinese came to ...
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Caged Monkey Kings, Naked Foxes and Screaming Bunnies: Working Animals
The iron gate of the slaughter room was firmly shut. Four workers in rain boots were playing cards in a room nearby with a few others watching. ‘The animal department is responsible for this, its head, Zheng, ...
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Pandamonium: Wildlife Law
‘To watch a panda in action — waddling, somersaulting, munching bamboo sprouts and heaving the occasional sigh — is to watch a child’s stuffed animal come miraculously to life’, pudgy, plushy, with eyes like t...
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The F-Word of Cats and Dogs, Food or Friends: Companion Animals
On 22/23 June 2013, The International Herald Tribune (now The International New York Times) ran a lead story on its front page under the title ‘Endangered Species in Bei**g: Big Dogs’. The newspaper reports that...
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Chinese Animal Lib: An Emerging Social Movement
There have been many dozens, of political movements, major and minor, in China since 1949, all initiated, staged and led by the Chinese government, and in most if not all cases, they were movements of some Chi...
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Article
Malcolm Coulthard and Alison Johnson (eds): The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics
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Animals’ Place in Legal Theory: Introduction to the Special issue on Animals’ Place in Jurisprudence
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Visibility and Invisibility of Animals in Traditional Chinese Philosophy and Law
There is yet to be any animal welfare or protection law for domestic animals in China, one of the few countries in the world today that do not have such laws. However, in Chinese imperial law, there were legal...
