Grounds of judgment : extraterritoriality and imperial power in nineteenth-century China and Japan /

Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, the 19th century encounter between East Asia and the Western world has been narrated as a legal encounter. This book explores extraterritoriality and the ways in which Western power operated in East Asia from the 1820s to the 1920s.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cassel, Pär Kristoffer
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Series:Oxford studies in international history.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Excavating extraterritoriality : the legacies of legal pluralism, subjecthood, and state-building in China and Japan
  • Codifying extraterritoriality : the Chinese "unequal treaties"
  • Institutionalizing extraterritoriality : the mixed court and the British Supreme Court in Shanghai
  • Exporting extraterritoriality : the evolution of jurisdiction over foreigners in Japan from the "expulsion edict" to the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Tianjin
  • Executing extraterritoriality : Sino-Japanese cases, 1870-95
  • Expelling extraterritoriality : treaty revision in Meiji Japan and Qing China, 1860-1912.