Before she was standing trial in a Chinese court on a murder charge, Gu Kailai, the 53-year-old lawyer and wife of deposed political leader Bo Xilai, wrote a book in a breezy style disparaging aspects of the American legal system. The following are selected quotes from the book, “Winning a Lawsuit in the U.S.,” published by Guangming Daily publishing house in February 1998.



Some people ask me ‘how can you win a case which has already lost twice in the States?’ I say this is the difference between defeated without having a battle and winning over a battle — courage is more important than wisdom.

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I often see foreigners have this lower-than-average-IQ look and shrug their shoulders when they talk about the Chinese culture.

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We should have expected that American laws were gangster laws.

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The United States is a place where abundant absurd dramas have been produced. They can level charges against dogs and a court can even convict a husband of raping his wife. They can come up with all variety of strange and absurd law cases.

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