Publications of James D. Seymour
Books:
China: The Politics of Revolutionary
Reintegration (New York: Harper and Row / T. Y.
Crowell, 1976)
The Fifth Modernization: China's Human
Rights Movement, 1978-l979 (New York: Earl M.
Coleman Enterprises, 1980). Edited collection of underground essays, with
annotation and commentary. Introduction (co-authored with Mab
Huang)
China Rights Annals, Volume 1: Human Rights Developments in the People's Republic of
China, October 1983-September 1984 (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc: 1985)
China's Satellite
Parties (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1987). Questia: http://www.questia.com/library/book/chinas-satellite-parties-by-james-d-seymour.jsp.
Published "internally" in Chinese as Zhongguo de weixingdang
(Beijing: Central Socialist Theory Research and Teaching Institute, 1992). A
Chinese version (詹姆斯·D·西摩 著,中国的卫星党) also available at: http://www.minzhuzhongguo.org/Article/sjxz/200802/20080221101619.shtml
Introduction to
Comparative Politics (co-author, with 8 others). New York: HarperCollins, 1985-93. Author of China
section for three editions.
New Ghosts, Old Ghosts: Prisons and Labor
Reform Camps in China (with Richard Anderson) M. E.
Sharpe, 1998. Chinese version published by Mirror Books (Hong Kong) in 1999 as司马晋, 安徒生: 中國勞改營紀實. http://www.mirrorbooks.com/?p=5898.
人權字典中英對照; Human Rights Dictionary: International, Mainland China, Hong
Kong, and Taiwan (Bilingual). (Co-editor; author of Hong Kong section;
co-author of International section, and author of various other entries);
Publisher: Taiwan Ministry of Education, 2007. Second edition
pending.
Publications edited:
Chinese Law and Government (quarterly published by M. E. Sharpe, Inc.) 1968-1971. Also, guest editor of special fall 1988 issue, Cadre
Accountability to the Law.
Chinese
Sociology and Anthropology (quarterly published by
M. E. Sharpe, Inc.), Fall-Winter 1982-83: guest co-editor of special double
issue comprised of annotated version of "Prison Memoirs" of Liu Qing
(co-edited).
SPEAHRhead: Bulletin of the
Society for the Protection of East Asians' Human Rights, 1979-1984--a quarterly on human Rights in East Asia which appeared
for five years.
The Potomac Conference, October
5 - 6, 1992, SinoTibetan Relations: Prospects for the
Future (co-editor). On-line publication: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/area/tibet-potomac/.
Chinese Sociology and
Anthropology, Spring 1994:
guest co-editor of special issue concerning religion in contemporary China.
Tibet
Through Dissident Chinese Eyes: Essays on Self-Determination Book co-edited with Cao Changqing. White
Plains, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. (Seymour wrote introductions to both English
and Chinese editions.)
Zhang Sizhi and the Role of the Defense Attorney in China's
Judiciary. Spring 1998: guest co-editor of Chinese
Law & Government.
Articles (partial listing):
"The American Student
Movement and China's Red Guards: A Comparative Study," in ¤Hª«»P«ä·Q Renwu yu
sixiang (Hong Kong), November 1969 (in
Chinese)
"[Constitutional history of the] Korean People's Democratic Republic," in Constitutions of the Countries of the World, edited by A. P. Blaustein and Gisbert Flanz (1972; revised version, 1978 [new constitution])
"[Constitutional history of the] Republic of China [Taiwan]," in Blaustein and Flanz, see ibid., (1974)
“Sovereignty in the South China Sea,” Bulletin
of Concerned Asian Scholars, 6:1 (1974), p. 67,
http://www.questia.com/read/97788722
"Questions Concerning Human Rights in China," Observer
Monthly (Hong Kong), March 1979. (In
Chinese)
"Homosexuality in the People's Republic of China," RFD, Spring 1979
"Gansu" (unpublished paper--part of project on Chinese provincial politics/history/economics organized by Edwin Winckler)
"Indices of Political Imprisonment," Universal Human Rights, January 1979
"Supporting
Democracy in the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China
(Taiwan)." With Raymond D. Gastil. In Freedom
House's Freedom in the World: Political Rights and Civil Liberties,
1983, edited by R. D. Gastil.
"The Abortive Attempt to Democratize China's Political System," in Ronald A. Morse, ed., The Limits of Reform in China (Boulder: Westview Press, 1983)
"Remove the Fetters from Taiwan's Press." The Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, 16 July 1984.
"Bones
in the Eggs?" Index on Censorship (London),
August 1984. (About China's campaign against "Spiritual
Pollution.")
"The
Mind of the Censor." Index on Censorship, (London), May 1985.
Commentary for minutes of Taiwan Garrison Command meeting: "Taiwan's Thought-Police." Index on Censorship June and August, 1985. (Two-part series.)
"Taiwan Pays the Price of Repression." Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, Aug. 5, 1985.
Commentary for Xu Wenli's "My Self-Defence," Index on Censorship, May 1986.
"China's Satellite Parties Today," Asian Survey, September 1986.
"Dark View from a Taiwan Prison," Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, Sept. 29, 1986
"What's Ahead for Hong Kong," Journal of Commerce, March 13, 1987. (Tranlsated in Zhongbao, April 1, 1987.)
“China,” in Jack Donnelly and Rhoda E. Howard, International
Handbook of Human Rights (New York: Greenwood Press, 1987), pp. 75-97.
"Taiwan
in 1987: A Year of Political Bombshells," Asian Survey, January
1988. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0004-4687(198801)28%3A1%3C71%3ATI1AYO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q
"Taiwan in 1988: No More Bandits," Asian Survey, January 1989.
"Cadre Accountability to the Law," The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, January 1989, pp 1-27.
"Human Rights and the Law in the People's Republic of China," in Victor Falkenheim, ed., Chinese Politics from Mao to Deng, (New York: Paragon, 1989)
"The Position of the Executive in [Hong Kong's] Future Special Administrative Region, Da Xue (Academia), December 1989
“The International Response to the 1989
Massacre,” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Winter
1990, pp. 55-61.
"The International Reaction to the Crackdown in China," in China Information (Leiden), April 1990, pp. 1-14. A Chinese translation was published in Shijie ribao (New York).
"Four Steps to Taiwan Political Reform," Asian Wall Street Journal, June 29, 1990.
"Hong Kong: The Outlook for Human Rights," Newsletter of the Association of Overseas Hong Kong Chinese for Democracy and Human Rights," 2:14, Dec. 9, 1990.
"China's Minor Parties and the Crisis of 1989," China Information, Spring 1991.
"Political Imprisonment in China Since Tiananmen," Proceedings of the 33rd International Congress of Asian and North African Studies," vol. 4 (Queenston, Ontario: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992)
"National Assembly Elections: No `Level Playing Field,'" Taiwan Communiqué, January 1992.
Four entries in Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary China, 1839-1976, edited by Edwin Leung (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.)
"A Half Century Later," in Roger Jeans, ed., Roads Not Taken: The Struggle of Opposition Parties in Twentieth-Century China (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1992)
"Human Rights and Tibet: The Many Layers of Contradictions" (in Chinese, translated by Liao Jianming), Human Rights Tribune, III:1, Spring 1992, pp. 37-39.
"China's Democracy Movement: What the Agenda Has Been Missing," in Susan Whitfield, ed., After the Event: Human Rights and Their Future in China (London: Wellsweep, 1993).
"Review
Essay: Toward an East Asian Confederation of Independent States?" Bulletin
of Concerned Asian Scholars, 1993, 24: 3.
"The Rights of Ethnic Minorities in China: Lessons of the Soviet Demise," American Asian Review, 2:2, Summer 1993, 401-413.
"Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Relations," in Samuel S. Kim, 3d ed. (China and the World: Chinese Foreign Relations in the Post-Cold War Era) and (new essay) 4th ed, (China and the World: Chinese Foreign Policy Faces the New Millennium) (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1994, 1998), pp. 202-225.
"Collective Rights and Nationality: Self-determination and the Future of the Chinese Empire," China Rights Forum, English version: spring 1995, pp. 4-7; Chinese version ("Jiti quanli he minzu zizhue"): summer 1995, pp. 42-43+36.
"Taiwan and the United Nations," The American Asian Review, 13:4, Winter 1995-96.
"Hong Kong: The Outlook for Human Rights," American Asian Review, Spring 1996. Chinese version in Ren yu renquan, Summer 1996.
"Zhonguoren kandai
Xizang wenti de lishixing zhuanhuan" (Changing
Chinese Views on the History of the Tibet Question). Zhongguo zhi
chun (China
Spring), July 1996, pp. 86-95. Translated by Xiao Hui.
"Zangren zhi Zang
bu duixian; Gangren zhi Gang you ru he?" (Tibetan Autonomy Not Honored; Same for Hong Kong?) Xianggang jingji ribao (Hong Kong Economic Journal, Sept. 1, 1997)
"Hong Kong's Politics Under Chinese Rule: A Preliminary Assessment," American Asian Review, XVI:2, Summer 1998, pp. 1-19.
"Nationalism
of the Lost Nations." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars,
January-March 1999, pp. 70-73.
"Does the Falun Gong Pose a Political Threat?" Taipei Times, July 15, 1999. (Chinese version appeared in the Hong Kong Pingguo ribao (Apple Daily), July 27, 1999.
"The Wheel of Law and the Rule of Law," China Rights Forum, Fall 1999.
"Strafvollzug in China," der übrblick, April 2000.
“Well-founded Fear: China Ignores International
Law in its Treatment of North Korean Refugees,” China Rights Forum,
autumn 2000.
“Xinjiang’s Production and Construction Corps,
and the Sinification of Eastern Turkestan,” Inner Asia, 2, 2000, pp 171-193.
“China and the International Asylum Regime: Case
of the North Korean Refugees.” Institute Reports, East Asian Institute,
Columbia University, October 2000.
“Sanctions or Subdued Relations: The
International Response to the 1989 Massacre,” in Scott Kennedy, ed., China
Cross Talk: The American Debate over China Policy since Normalization (New
York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).
“Saving Asia’s Environment,” Critical Asian
Studies, 35:2, June 2003, pp. 325-335.
“’The Nation State:’ A Concept Whose Time has Passed” (in Chinese); Hong Kong Apple Daily, March
17,2004.
“China’s Environment: A Bibliographic Essay,” in
Kristen A. Day, ed., China’s Environment and the Challenge of Sustainable
Development Armonk NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2005, pp. 248-273.
China:
Background Paper on Human Rights with Special Reference to North Koreans in
China (study commissioned by the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees), 2005, http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.pdf?tbl=RSDCOI&id=4231d11d4 .
“Ethnic Conflicts: East Asia,” in Thomas Leonard,
ed., Encyclopedia of the Developing World, 3 vols.,
New York: Routledge, 2005, vol
1, pp 602-605.
“Sizing Up China’s Prisons,” in Børge Bakken, Crime,
Punishment and Policing in China,Oxford:
Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, pp 141-167.
"Profit and Loss in China's Contemporary Prison System" (with contribution by Richard Anderson) in Philip F. Williams and Yenna Wu, eds, Remolding and Resistance Among Writers of the Chinese Prison Camp: Disciplined and Published . London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 157-173.
“The Exodus: North Korea’s Out-migration,” in
John Feffer, ed., The Future of US-Korean
Relations: The Imbalance of Power, London, Routledge,
2006, pp. 130-159.
台灣人權的未竟志業(Human Rights: Taiwan’s Unfinished Business) http://groups.google.com
/group/yotu/msg/6490abde1db8c5b2
蘋果日報(Apple Daily), Dec. 9,
2006.
“Air of Indifference” (concerning air pollution
in Hong Kong), South China Morning Post, July 6, 2007.
“Scenarios for Democracy in Tibet,” (chapter for
anthology, book in publication.)
“Structural Impediments to Environmental
Justice,” in Hong Kong Journal, No. 9., January 2008, pp. 1-10,
http://www.hkjournal.org/archive/2008_spring/4.htm.
“Plateau in Tumult: A Review of Western Literature on Recent Conditions
in Tibet,” Bimonthly Journal on Mongolian & Tibetan Current Situation,
Taiwan, 17:6, Nov. 2008.
“維吾爾族, 和許人也?” English title
(mistranslated into Chinese): Are the Uighurs “a People.” Ming Pao, July 12, 2009. http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/090711/4/d5al.html.
Writing on
the international law of secession, and China’s position thereon. 2010. Details
available on request.
“Seeing China to the Nines: My First Trip to
China,” 信報, 21 May 2011. http://www.hkej.com/template/blog/php/blog_details.php?blog_posts_id=67659
“China and the
International Human Rights Covenants”
(with Patrick Yuk-tung Wong), Critical Asian Studies, June 2015.
暗渡陳倉：中國給國際人權公約的考驗, 台灣人權學刊, June 2015 (a version of the preceding).
“Wei Jingsheng,”
entry in The Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography. Forthcoming in 2016.
Also: Innumerable book
reviews. Example (in XinBao / Hong Kong
Economic Journal, available
here):
Ghost
Song: [double review] Mao’s
Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962
By Frank Dikötter
Walker & Company, 2010, 420 pages, US$30.00
“The Fatal Politics of the PRC’s Great Leap Forward: The Preface to Tombstone,”
in Journal of Contemporary China,
By Yang Jisheng 楊繼繩
2010, 19:66, pages 755-776