EACS-2016. Book of Abstracts

21st Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies 205 Adams Olga Yurievna (Moscow State University) People’s Republic of China’s Anticorruption Regulatory Framework: Achievements and Challenges Key words: anti-corruption, legislation, Criminal Code, amendments, party discipline The presentation aims to provide an overview of the latest changes in China’s anti-corruption policy (2012–2016) as demonstrated in party regulations and amendments to the growing body of legislation, and trends in public and social scientists’ discourse on the subject. 2016 will be an important year in PRC’s politics — the XIX Party Congress will convene amidst slowing economic growth and a host of issues requiring immediate resolution, such as air pollution. Victories and travails in the anti-corruption drive which reached new heights (literally) under Xi Jinping’s tutelage will undoubtedly receive close scrutiny as well. While the CPC’s position as leader in the anti-corruption battle remains unchal- lenged (“party regulations must be even stricter than law”), and possible further directions of its efforts — and targets —will be anyone’s best guess, work in laying down regulatory foundations to curb corruption has been continued consistently, although it has been slightly overlooked against the backdrop of the high-profile corruption cases (i. e., Bo Xilai, Jiang Jiemin, etc.) that dominated media attention in 2014–2015. On November 1 of 2015, NinthAmendment to the Criminal Code, which was almost exclusively focused on anti-graft, came into effect. It considerablywidens the reach of prosecution and strengthens penalties for ‘grand scale’corruption. During 2014, 31 000 corruption-related cases were completed by courts of all levels, resulting in 41 000 prosecutions. 28 cases of state employees at and above the provincial level became “cases that grabbed attention of the whole country”. D'Attoma Sara (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) Time toWash Your Dirty Linen in Public: Recent Developments on Domestic Violence Legislation Key words: domestic violence; law; protection orders; divorce; family law After two drafts, the former issued on 24th November 2014 and the latter at the beginning of September 2015, the first law against-domestic violence of the People’s Republic of China ( 中华人民共和国反家庭 暴力法 ) has been released by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on 27th December 2015 and will enter into force on 1st March 2016. Many countries have adopted new policies and regulations to face the phenomenon of domestic violence, which affects a vast number of families daily throughout the world. In the People’s Republic of China as well, domestic violence has been a hot topic in the legal and social debate in the last few years and Chinese lawmakers have issued several legally binding and non-binding documents to tackle the increasing phe- nomenon of violence among family members; however, this body of regulations only represents the first ad hoc law on this topic. In fact, this law emerged as a response to the numerous calls from scholars, NGOs and other players for a specific legislation governing the issue of domestic violence. This presentation will provide an overview of the recent legal developments in China on the topic of domestic violence and the most interesting features of this new law, especially those concerning the legal definition of domestic violence, the protection orders system, divorce proceedings and its implementation scope. An attempt will also be made to predict some of the possible scenarios deriving from the enforce- ment of this law and to point out its weaknesses and strengths through the analysis of some cases and on the basis of the current debate among scholars about this issue.