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.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
©2012.
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| 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.