This is a monograph entitled The Voice from China: An CHEN on International Economic Law . It actually collects and compiles 24 representative articles written in English by me during different stages of the past 30-odd years since the early 1980s. As known to all, China holds one of the most ancient and glorious civilizations in the world and has contributed immensely to human civilization. Most Chinese people are very proud of this. However, since the notorious Opium War in 1840, China has suffered from aggression and suppression of the Western powers and Japan for more than a century, which is a humiliation to all Chinese people. When I was young, I was taught of the glorious civilization of China, but I was also educated by and personally experienced the sad national crisis of China. Such complex emotions gradually nurtured my strong sense of national pride and patriotism, my determination to fi ght against international hegemonism, and my ambition to strive for social justice and to support all other weak countries in the world. Shortly after New China was established in 1949, since the late 1950s, China suffered from a fragile social and political situation for 20 years. During this period, the legal research and the legal academic community in China also withered. As a junior teacher in the university at that time, I had to shift my teaching fi eld from law to other disciplines, not to mention keeping my mind abreast with the progress of modern international law.