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Articles
51- Facial, Voice, Gait, and Vehicle Recognition as Control InterfacesCollection, matching, error, and the conversion of multimodal recognition into coercive action.
- Black Jails and Petitioner Interception: How Local Responsibility Produces Extralegal CustodyBeijing interception, contracted security, temporary facilities, forced return, and fragmented responsibility.
- Hong Kong National-Security Cases: How A Free City Was Institutionally Taken OverA case study of how national-security logic reshaped Hong Kong's media, assembly, elections, associations, and courts.
- Courts, Procuratorates, and Adjudication CommitteesCourts and procuratorates have professional procedures, but political-legal coordination, Party leadership, adjudication committees, and performance systems shape sensitive cases.
- The CPPCC and Consultative IncorporationThe CPPCC incorporates parties, sectors, ethnic and religious representatives, and elites into consultation without becoming an independent center of power.
- Detention Centers and Prisons: How Custody Extends PunishmentPolice detention, justice-administration prisons, health care, labor, visits, and resident procuratorial oversight.
- Timeline of Digital Governance and CensorshipA timeline of network access, real-name systems, platform responsibility, cyberspace regulators, data security, algorithms, and generative AI rules.
- Digital Surveillance and Human Rights: From Cameras and Platforms to Offline ActionA five-stage account of collection, linkage, classification, dispatch, and action.
- Exit Bans: Legal Grounds, Border Lists, and Family SpilloverCriminal, civil, and national-security exit restrictions, notice, duration, and remedy.
- Institutional History, Legal Tools, and Evidence Limits in the Falun Gong CrackdownSeparating the 1999 political decision, legal prohibition, propaganda, detention, and grave-abuse allegations.
- Zhengzhou Foxconn Worker Protests: Labor Claims Overridden By StabilityHow pandemic control, labor arrangements, wage disputes, and police intervention converged in the Zhengzhou Foxconn protests.
- How Grid Governance Turns Digital Leads into Doorstep EnforcementPlatform alerts, street-level dispatch, grid visits, employer coordination, and feedback into data systems.
- Grid Management: How Stability Maintenance Enters Everyday Community LifeHow grid workers, community police, building leaders, and data registers form a grassroots risk-detection system.
- From Hong Kong To The National Security LawHong Kong's national security transformation shows how security narrative, legal rewriting, institutional entry, and stigma change institutional boundaries.
- Hong Kong Protest Propaganda: Reframing Demands As Riot And Foreign ManipulationA case study of how the CCP reframed political demands, police conflict, and international attention as order and foreign manipulation.
- House Churches: Registration, Venue Enforcement, and Identity PressureVenue, donation, education, online, and criminal exposure outside the Three-Self system.
- How To Read Stability-Maintenance SignalsA reader's method for identifying stability responses through official language, police presence, platform shifts, and later summons.
- Administrative Governance of Mosques and Islamic ClergyVenue alteration, clergy credentials, scripture education, pilgrimage, halal labels, and deradicalization.
- Counsel Access and Assigned Defense in National-Security CasesMeeting permission, lawyer choice, file access, secrecy, and pressure around guilty pleas.
- Custodial Health Care, Medical Release, and Delayed TreatmentHealth assessment, referrals, records, medical release, and death investigation.
- The National Supervisory Commission and the Discipline SystemThe merged discipline and supervision structure connects internal Party investigation with state supervisory power over public personnel.
- The National People's Congress: How Party Policy Enters State LawSeparating NPC constitutional authority, Party direction, drafting, voting, and implementation.
- Timeline of Overseas Influence and Transnational RepressionA timeline of diaspora work, external propaganda, student groups, Chinese-language media, Fox Hunt, secret police stations, and platform harassment.
- Phone Forensics and Device Search: Opening the Personal ArchiveField checks, forensic tools, cloud synchronization, and contact expansion turn phones into relational evidence.
- Platform-Police Cooperation: How Online Speech Becomes Offline RiskHow real-name systems, platform records, reports, cyber police, and local stations turn online speech into offline pressure.
- Platform-Police Data Interfaces: When Companies Become Governance NodesLegal requests, administrative cooperation, proactive moderation, retention, and technical supply.
- Police Big-Data Fusion Platforms: How Information Enters PolicingCross-database aggregation, risk tags, lead dispatch, grassroots checks, and feedback loops.
- Police, State Security, And Cyber Police: Division Of Labor In RepressionHow public security, state security, cyber police, and local stations divide work across order, political security, online speech, and offline enforcement.
- The Political-Legal Committee: Why Police, Courts, And Procuratorates Are Not IndependentHow the political-legal system connects police, courts, procuratorates, and stability maintenance under Party leadership.
- The Political-Legal Committee And The Stability Command ChainHow political-legal committees connect police, courts, procuratorates, judicial administration, and grassroots actors into a stability chain.
- The Interface Between Propaganda And Stability MaintenanceHow public opinion handling connects propaganda, deletion, police talks, local accountability, and risk lists.
- From Protest To Stability MaintenanceWhen rights defense becomes collective action, local authorities securitize the issue and activate political-legal, grassroots, workplace, and platform links.
- The Coercive Boundary of Psychiatry: When Diagnosis Becomes ControlVoluntary treatment, danger criteria, referral actors, review, and allegations of political psychiatric confinement.
- Skynet, Sharp Eyes, and the Public Video SystemConstruction, data interfaces, grassroots use, and the 2025 national regulation governing public video surveillance.
- How Real-Name Rules Bind Accounts, Devices, and Offline IdentityHow phone numbers, identity documents, platform accounts, and public-service records form a unified identity interface.
- Religious Affairs and United Front: Administering SinicizationInterfaces among united front, religious affairs, patriotic associations, local government, and police.
- Timeline of Human-Rights Repression and Social ControlA timeline of labor camps, household and work-unit control, national-security law, ethnic and religious governance, RSDL, and digital surveillance.
- RSDL: How a Legal Procedure Creates a Black-Box SpaceA sourced reconstruction of RSDL conditions, place, notice, counsel, and procuratorial oversight.
- Secret Police Stations: Domestic Enforcement Moved OverseasHow so-called overseas service stations cross the boundary between consular service and foreign law-enforcement projection.
- Secret Trials: State Secrets, Public Access, and Defense LimitsClosed trial, secret evidence, judgments, family attendance, and verifiability.
- Soft Detention and Sensitive-Period Control without Formal OrdersTracking, guards, forced travel, disconnection, escort, and family pressure as informal restriction.
- The State Council Under Party LeadershipThe State Council manages national administration while major direction, personnel, and cross-agency coordination remain under centralized Party leadership.
- Timeline of Party-State Institutions and LawA timeline of constitutional change, administration, the political-legal system, supervision, and institutional reform.
- Surveillance Procurement and Vendor Chains: Industrializing State CapacityBudgets, tenders, integration, algorithms, and maintenance contracts reveal how surveillance capacity expands.
- Tea Talks And Warning Systems: Fear Without Formal ChargesHow informal police talks, warnings, written promises, and repeated visits create speech boundaries without formal charges.
- Tibetan Monasteries, Resident Cadres, and Grassroots Grid ControlVenue registration, monastic management, patriotic education, digital records, and community responsibility.
- Torture, Illegal Evidence, and Medical Deprivation in Case HandlingCoerced confession, sleep deprivation, restraints, delayed care, and exclusion of illegal evidence.
- Transnational Repression As Overseas ControlHow family pressure, online harassment, passports, unofficial police stations, bounties, and proxy threats export fear overseas.
- The Command Chain of Xinjiang's Integrated Joint Operations PlatformReconstructing IJOP from data collection and risk rules to police checking and detention consequences.
- Xinjiang Birth-Rate Decline and Evidence on Coercive Birth PreventionSeparating statistics, policy, medical measures, testimony, government explanation, and legal findings.
- Xinjiang VETCs: Counterterrorism Policy, Administrative Education, and DetentionSeparating the official vocational-training account, coercion evidence, criminal detention, and later transfer.
Cases
15- The Cao Shunli Case: Custodial Health Care, International Advocacy, and Death InvestigationAn evidence-graded reconstruction of institutions, procedure, disputes, and consequences in The Cao Shunli Case: Custodial Health Care, International Advocacy, and Death Investigation.
- The 709 Crackdown: How Legal Advocacy Became a Security RiskAn evidence-graded reconstruction of institutions, procedure, disputes, and consequences in The 709 Crackdown: How Legal Advocacy Became a Security Risk.
- Hong Kong National-Security Cases: How A Free City Was Institutionally Taken OverA case study of how national-security logic reshaped Hong Kong's media, assembly, elections, associations, and courts.
- The Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi Case: From Private Gathering to Subversion ConvictionsAn evidence-graded reconstruction of institutions, procedure, disputes, and consequences in The Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi Case: From Private Gathering to Subversion Convictions.
- The Chang Weiping Case: RSDL, Torture Allegations, and Pressure on LawyersAn evidence-graded reconstruction of institutions, procedure, disputes, and consequences in The Chang Weiping Case: RSDL, Torture Allegations, and Pressure on Lawyers.
- Zhengzhou Foxconn Worker Protests: Labor Claims Overridden By StabilityHow pandemic control, labor arrangements, wage disputes, and police intervention converged in the Zhengzhou Foxconn protests.
- From Hong Kong To The National Security LawHong Kong's national security transformation shows how security narrative, legal rewriting, institutional entry, and stigma change institutional boundaries.
- Hong Kong Protest Propaganda: Reframing Demands As Riot And Foreign ManipulationA case study of how the CCP reframed political demands, police conflict, and international attention as order and foreign manipulation.
- Petitioner Black Jails: Temporary Sites, Security Agents, and Forced ReturnAn evidence-graded reconstruction of institutions, procedure, disputes, and consequences in Petitioner Black Jails: Temporary Sites, Security Agents, and Forced Return.
- From Protest To Stability MaintenanceWhen rights defense becomes collective action, local authorities securitize the issue and activate political-legal, grassroots, workplace, and platform links.
- Secret Police Stations: Domestic Enforcement Moved OverseasHow so-called overseas service stations cross the boundary between consular service and foreign law-enforcement projection.
- Community Grids and Pandemic Lockdowns: How Enforcement Entered Household LifeAddress-level enforcement through health codes, community lists, property access, and police coordination.
- The White Paper Protest Suppression Chain: Removal, Identification, and Offline TracingReconstructing the online-offline connection through removal, identity leads, device checks, and later tracing.
- Xinjiang IJOP Risk Lists and the Detention ChainHow application fields, police checking, and the OHCHR assessment connect data labels to liberty.
- The Zhou Yongkang Case: Security Power, Petroleum Interests, and NetworksHow a top-security case affected political-legal, local, and state-enterprise networks.