Casting Gender Light on Authoritarian Legality in China: An Inquiry of

Finally, a qualitative analysis of these cases was carried out, in particular of the judicial reasoning provided by the judges, to explore how these controversial cases are handled by the judiciary, and the implications of this on the interplay between gender, sex, sexuality and authoritarian power in the context of authoritarian legality in China. [...] note that notwithstanding Xi Jinping’s political agenda of “governing the nation according to the law” (yifa zhiguo), the priority of the criminal justice system remains fulfilling the political objective of “defending the security of the state and the political power of the people’s dictatorship and socialist system.”24 Furthermore, the state shapes the values that underpin the legal system, whic. [...] In these Opinions, the SPC detailed four requirements for judicial reasoning: to elucidate the facts of the case and the basis and reasons for the judgment; to interpret the legal rules on which the judgment is based and the reasons for applying the legal rule; to demonstrate the spirit of combining law, reason and sentiment (fa li qing); and to provide judicial reasoning in a clear, precise, and. [...] The public outcry driven by the lenient punishment imposed in this case may cast some light on the role of the power or status of the offender in sentencing in the crime of rape. [...] Some netizens then checked the shareholders of the KTV and the relationship between the suspects and the KTV, and identified possible connections among the KTV, one suspect in the case, and the local mafia.