Book contents
- Political Trials in Theory and History
- Political Trials in Theory and History
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- 1 “The Justice of My Cause Is Clear, but There’s Politics to Fear”: Political Trials in Theory and History
- 2 The Trial of Socrates as a Political Trial
- 3 The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus
- 4 Jan Hus in the Medieval Ecclesiastical Courts
- 5 The French Revolutionary Trials
- 6 The Soviet Union, the Nuremberg Trials, and the Politics of the Postwar Moment
- 7 Brown v. Board of Education
- 8 The Eichmann Trial in Law and Memory
- 9 In the Theater of the Rule of Law
- 10 China’s Gang of Four Trial
- 11 Anger, Honor, and Truth
- 12 “This Following Orders Thing Is Very Relative”
- 13 The Microsoft Case as a Political Trial
- 14 The Trials of Khodorkovsky in Russia
- 15 Nashiri in Gitmo
- Index
10 - China’s Gang of Four Trial
The Law v. The Laws of History
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2017
- Political Trials in Theory and History
- Political Trials in Theory and History
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- 1 “The Justice of My Cause Is Clear, but There’s Politics to Fear”: Political Trials in Theory and History
- 2 The Trial of Socrates as a Political Trial
- 3 The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus
- 4 Jan Hus in the Medieval Ecclesiastical Courts
- 5 The French Revolutionary Trials
- 6 The Soviet Union, the Nuremberg Trials, and the Politics of the Postwar Moment
- 7 Brown v. Board of Education
- 8 The Eichmann Trial in Law and Memory
- 9 In the Theater of the Rule of Law
- 10 China’s Gang of Four Trial
- 11 Anger, Honor, and Truth
- 12 “This Following Orders Thing Is Very Relative”
- 13 The Microsoft Case as a Political Trial
- 14 The Trials of Khodorkovsky in Russia
- 15 Nashiri in Gitmo
- Index
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- Political Trials in Theory and History , pp. 263 - 294Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017