Ethan Michelson 

• Department of Sociology and Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Associate Professor

• Maurer School of Law, Associate Professor of Sociology and Law

Contact Info

Indiana University
Department of Sociology
Ballantine Hall 744
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405-7103

Phone: (812) 856-1521

Fax: (812) 855-0781

PGP: public key

links updated October 7, 2005

• Chinese Legal Scholarship -- Articles and Books
  • lots of legal scholarship (China Judge)
    • Zhu Suli
    • He Weifang
• Chinese Law-Related Photos
• Chinese Legal Research Resources
  • English
    • Congressional-Executive Commission on China's "Virtual Academy"
    • Wei Luo's Chinese Law Resources
    • Chinese Law Prof Blog
    • China Digital Times
    • www.lawinfochina.com: another site with English translations of Chinese legal scholarship
    • Academic Info
    • China Legal Change
    • China Daily Search Page
  • Chinese Government Sites
    • www.legalinfo.gov.cn: the official government "legal popularization network"
    • www.lawbase.net.cn: perhaps the most comprehensive data base of bodies of law and regulations in China
    • http://www.sinolaw.net.cn/
    • http://www.chineselawyer.com.cn/: the official site of the All-China Lawyers Association (including news and a national lawyer directory)
    • www.bj.lawyer.org.cn: the official site of the Beijing Bar Association 
      • a diagram of the administrative structure of the association is here
    • www.bjsf.gov.cn: the official site of the Beijing Bureau of Justice
    • www.bjjgj.gov.cn: Beijing Bureau of Prison Administration
  • Chinese Newspaper and Magazine Sites
    • Legal Daily search page
    • People's Daily search page
    • Beijing Youth Daily search page
    • Nanfang Daily and Nanfang Zhoumo
    • Guangming Daily search page
    • People's Court News search page
    • People's Procurators News
    • Beijing Evening News search page
    • Caijing Magazine
      • search page
  • Chinese Government Leaders (in Chinese)
    • data base of leaders on People's Daily site (out of date)
• Data
  • GIS
    • CITAS (China In Time And Space) provide:
      • 1982 and 1990 aggregated Chinese census data,
      • county-level data compiled from provincial statistical yearbooks, and
      • GIS base map files.
      • The data are also mirrored by CIESIN (Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network) at http://sedac.ciesin.org/china/
    • Urban China Research Network provides GIS maps of Shanghai and Tianjin as well as links to many other China map-related data
    •  China Historical GIS contains more than historical maps and data
• General Law & Society Resources
  • The World Bank Public Sector Group