Hey Jiahong

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He Jiahong ( Chinese  何家弘 , Pinyin Hé Jiāhóng ; born May 10, 1953 in Beijing , People's Republic of China ) is a Chinese criminal lawyer and crime writer .

Life

He comes from an originally upper class family, his grandfather was a general in the Kuomintang in the Republic of China and was released in communist China. As a young, staunch communist , he was sent to the country during the cultural revolution . In 1977 he received permission to return to Beijing, where he worked as a plumber in the construction industry. From 1979 he was able to take up law studies at the Chinese People's University , which he graduated with a BA in 1983 and a Master’s degree in 1986.

In 1980 he married a woman from a family of doctors; they have a daughter. In 1990, a year after the Tian'anmen massacre , he conducted research at Northwestern University near Chicago on a Ford Foundation grant . After further study visits, he received his doctorate there in 1993 with the dissertation Criminal Prosecution in the PRC and the USA: A Comparative Study . He has since been repeatedly invited to guest lectures in the United States, Japan and Dubai .

He was appointed professor at China People's University and was appointed director of the Institute of Evidence Law in 2006.

In an interview in 2015, he rated the democratization process in China as a protracted undertaking. Since 2008, He has published proposals to limit what he believes is rampant corruption in China . Voluntary disclosures should be encouraged by the end of 2013 and an amnesty should take place in return . However, the proposal was not accepted.

He published his first crime novel starring Hong Jun in 1994, translated into English as Crime of Blood . Since then he has written four more detective novels, some of which have been translated into English, Spanish, Italian and French. He names the American poet lawyer Scott Turow as a model for his literary work .

Works (translations in English)

  • with Jon R Waltz: Criminal prosecution in the People's Republic of China and the United States of America. A comparative study. China Procuratorial Press, Beijing 1995
  • Hanging Devils. Hong Jun Investigates. Translation into English by Duncan Hewitt. Penguin, Camberwell 2012
  • The Black Hole of Human Life. Crimes behind the stock market. Penguin Group, Melbourne 2014
  • Back From The Dead. A Landmark Ruling of Wrongful Conviction in China . 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Thomas Mitchell: "I have novel ideas about the law" , in: Financial Times , Interview, February 21, 2015, p. 3
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. He is the family name here, Jiahong is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Hey, Jiahong
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 何家弘 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese lawyer and crime writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Beijing