Chinese law in imperial eyes : sovereignty, justice, and transcultural politics /

"How did American schoolchildren, French philosophers, Russian Sinologists, Dutch merchants, and British lawyers imagine China and Chinese law? What happened when agents of presumably dominant Western empires had to endure the humiliations and anxieties of maintaining a profitable but precariou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chen, Li (Professor of History and Sociolegal Studies) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Colección:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Temas:
Da Qing lü.
Law > China > History.
Sociological jurisprudence > China > History.
Exterritoriality.
Sovereignty.
Criminal law > China > History.
Justice, Administration of > China.
Droit > Chine > Histoire.
Sociologie juridique > Chine > Histoire.
Souveraineté.
sovereignty.
LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs
Criminal law.
Justice, Administration of.
Law.
Sociological jurisprudence.
China.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Imperial archives and historiography of western extraterritoriality in China
  • Translation of the Qing code and colonial origins of comparative Chinese law
  • Chinese law and society in the formation of European modernity
  • Sentimental imperialism and the global spectacle of Chinese punishments
  • Law and empire in the making of the first Opium War.

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