Teng Biao grew up in a rural village before attending law school at Peking University and focusing on human rights. While his early successes were lauded by the Chinese government, he was later abducted and tortured by police. He fled to the United States with his family and now teaches at Hunter College in NYC.
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Council on Foreign Relations, "CFR Backgrounders: Religion in China," June 10, 2015
June 10, 2015
The Council on Foreign Relations published the backgrounder, "Religion in China", to explain the freedom and regulation of religion in China, Atheism and the Chinese Communist Party, Christian state-sanctioned and house churches, Islam and Uighurs in Xinjiang, Chinese Buddhism and Folk Religions, Tibetan Buddhism, Banned Religious Groups, and China's religious revival. The piece was written by Eleanor Albert.
Constitution of the Communist Party of China
November 14, 2012
The following is the full text of the Constitution of the Communist Party of China (CPC) revised and adopted at the 18th CPC National Congress on Nov. 14, 2012.
Full text of resolution on amendment to CPC Constitution October 21, 2007
October 21, 2007
The following is the full text of Resolution of the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China on the Amended Constitution of the Communist Party of China adopted at the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China on October 21, 2007:
Additional Articles to the Constitution of the Republic of China Sixth Revision April 24, 2000
April 24, 2000
Articles One through Eleven were adopted by the fifth session of the Third National Assembly on 24 April 2000 in a Sixth Revision of the Constitution, and promulgated by the president on 25 April 2000. These Articles replaced the Eleven Additional Articles adopted in the 1997 Fourth Revision, which had remained in effect after the Council of Grand Justices declared the articles adopted by the Fifth Revision of 1999 void.
Constitution Of The People's Republic Of China, 1982
December 4, 1982
Constitution Of The People's Republic Of China, originally adopted December 4, 1982
The Constitution of the Republic of China 1946
December 25, 1946
The 1946 Constitution of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
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