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Commentary: Editor’s Note
Full text linkIn our continuing efforts to publish diverse and authoritative perspectives on Chinese Law, the Journal of Chinese Lawv is proud to present the following Commentary as part of a continuing series of periodic contributions from influential Chinese policymakers.
Liu Hongru serves as Deputy Governor of the People’s Bank of China and currently is the Vice-Director of the State Commission for Economic Restructuring of the PRC. He has also served on the PRC’s State Council Leading Group on Foreign Investment, which has supervised relevant authorities in the drafting of foreign investment laws
Perspectives on Free Speech in China: Editor’s Note
Full text linkWhile some degree of freedom of speech may exist without a formal democratic system, true democracy cannot exist without genuine freedom of speech. For the last half century, the Chinese people have struggled continuously for the right to free speech, many paying the price of imprison- ment or death. In our effort to publish diverse perspectives on Chinese legal reform, the Journal of Chinese Law presents the following two perspectives, which examine the history of the struggle for free speech in China and explore the right to free speech itself.
Big Character Posters in China: A Historical Survey examines the history of big character posters (dazibao) in the People’s Republic of China during the last fifty years. Dazibao have become an important political phenomenon in modem China because of their role as a powerful vehicle for expressing political opinion. Written by a Chinese legal scholar, this article provides a unique perspective on many key events in China’s contemporary legal and political history. Between Theory and Practice: The Possibility of a Right to Free Speech in China sets freedom of speech and the respect for individual rights in a theoretical context. Writ- ten as a student note, this essay explores both the basis and the necessity for the right to free speech in China
In Memoriam – Yang Xiaoping
Full text linkIt is with the deepest sadness that we report the death of our friend and colleague, Yang Xiaoping, who died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage on September 24, 1989. Xiaoping served for two years on the staff of the Journal of Chinese Law, most recently as Translations Editor
Symposium on Taiwan: Preface
Full text linkIn the winter of 1979, the United States shifted diplomatic rela- tions from Taipei to Beijing. At that time, many international observers predicted that Taiwan’s economic and political stability as well as its international stature would decline. Yet, Taiwan’s economy is stronger now than it was ten years ago, with Taiwan’s treasury holding roughly 75 billion dollars in foreign exchange reserves, placing it third in the world behind Japan and West Germany. In international affairs, Taiwan is gaining formal diplomatic recognition from a number of countries that had never recognized it before or that had shifted relations to Beijing. Since the death of former Republic of China (ROC) President, Chiang Ching-kuo, internal politics have changed dramatically. First, in July 1987, the government of the ROC lifted martial law which had been in effect since 1948. Second, the Kuomintang (KMT), which had long presided over a one-party system, agreed to accept a multi-party system and to allow the opposition parties to compete with it for genuine political power. Increasingly open political debate and more searching and penetrating scholarly inquiry into the legitimacy of government policies and procedures have accompanied these changes by the KMT. Moreover, both domestic and foreign parties with economic interests in Taiwan are demanding greater economic and legal protection
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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