ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Clement Yongxi Chen

Yongxi Chen is a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Law, The University of Hong Kong, where he teaches Chinese public law and researches mainly in the areas of law & data technology and comparative administrative law.

POSTS BY Yongxi Chen

28 June 2019

Yongxi Chen

A Déjà Vu? The Social Credit System and fajia (Legalism)

While it is certainly beneficial to contrast the SCS to emerging governance mechanisms in the West or principles of civil liberties, it is equally important to connect it to traditional Chinese thoughts which may have influenced the policy-makers. In view of the tendency of associating the SCS with Confucianism, this blog post concentrates on fajia (legalism), a traditional school of political and legal thought that had shaped the mode of governance in imperial China. Continue reading >>

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