"The CCP has long presented the Chinese citizenry with a strict social contract: the CCP enjoys an absolute political …"

"Chinese Communists were no more inclined to respect individual liberties when they ran one of the poorest and most in…"

"The biggest advantage the Chinese government has over us is that it doesn’t have to contend with constitutional democ…"

"The day I arrived was about a week after the July 9 crackdown on [civil] rights lawyers. I didn’t realize it at the t…"

"According to statistics compiled in 2003, only 1 to 5 percent of trials in China have witnesses. The conviction rate …"

"The Party has accepted that it cannot eliminate Feng Shui; instead, it has placed itself as the ultimate authority on…"

"Old Testament criticism was never bound by the same rules and prejudices as the study of China or of India, and vice …"

"...the anachronistic conception that Greece and Rome alone should be considered sources of culture for us, and that t…"

"It was a foot in name only. The misshapen mass looked more like a hoof bisected by a crack."

"Strange to think it was an erotic thing. To us, the smell of rotting flesh would be unbearable. But back then men wro…"