Shuyu CHU
Shuyu Chu’s research lies at the intersection of Chinese law, politics, and governance, focusing on intra-Party supervision, anti-corruption mechanisms, and China’s cross-border legal cooperation. Her PhD dissertation, “Beyond Anti-Corruption: Chinese Communist Party’s Disciplinary Infrastructure,” rated as Outstanding (Top 5%), is currently being revised for monograph publication. Chu’s academic excellence has earned her nominations for the prestigious Li Ka Shing Prizes and HKU Foundation Award for Outstanding Research Postgraduate Students (2022-2023).
Employing innovative theoretical frameworks like Foucault’s disciplinary power, Chu analyzes the CCP’s internal oversight institutions. Her work on China’s supervisory commission and intra-Party patrolling (“xunshi”) has been published or is forthcoming in respected journals. Chu has presented her findings at prestigious conferences, including the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference.
With a two-year China Law and Policy fellowship at Georgetown University Law Center and an LLM in Human Rights from the University of Hong Kong, Chu brings a nuanced perspective to Chinese law and its global implications. Her research on “quanfan” (persuasion to return) explores China’s alternative to extradition, contributing to the understanding of transnational legal orders.
Currently a Dissertation Year Fellow at the University of Hong Kong, Chu continues exploring legal theory, criminal law, and China’s international legal influence.
Publications
Discipline Beyond Borders: The Evolution of China’s Approaches to Fugitive Repatriation (1979-2024) [with Hualing Fu] (China Information, Forthcoming, 2025)
Authoritarian Expediency in Transnational Law Enforcement: How China “Persuades” Overseas Fugitives to Return (Under Review)
China’s Challenge to Liberal Democracies, in Glenn Patmore ed., Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Law and Democracy, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar [with Jiajun Luo] (forthcoming 2024)
Xunshi: The Politics of Patrolling the Chinese Party-State (Under Review)
Leniency toward Official Misconduct in China’s Harsh Criminal Justice – The Case of Supervision Commission (presented in Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2024 Annual Conference)
Book Chapter, “China’s Challenge to Liberal Democracies,” in Glenn Patmore ed., Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Law and Democracy, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar [with Jiajun Luo] (forthcoming 2024)
Journal Article, “Return by ‘Persuasion’ and the Recursivity of Transnational Legal Orders: China’s Strategic Adaptation in Fugitive Repatriation” (under review by US law review journals)
Journal Article, “Xunshi: The Politics of Patrolling the Chinese Party-State” (invited to be published in a peer-review journal)
“Leniency toward Official Misconduct in China’s Harsh Criminal Justice – The Case of Supervision Commission” (presented in Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2024 Annual Conference)
Award
Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of Hong Kong (2024)
Nomination for the Li Ka Shing Prizes and HKU Foundation Award for Outstanding Research Postgraduate Students (2022-2023)
China Law and Policy Fellowship, Georgetown University Law Center (2021—2023)
Pilot Scheme on International Exposure Grant, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong (2019)