| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 274 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 141 |
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Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 141.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Sovereignty and China: Past, Present, and Future; The Method of Conceptual History; Outline and Contribution; 1 International Law and the Sinocentric Ritual System: A Nineteenth-Century Clash of Normative Orders; Narrating China within the History of International Law; A Clash of Imaginaries: Sovereignty and the Universalization of International Law; The Chinese Normative Order: Tianrenheyi and the Correlative Cosmology |
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Ritual Justice and the Tributary System within a Sacred EmpireConclusion; 2 Secularizing a Sacred Empire: Early Translations and Uses of International Law; Translating Emmerich de Vattel through a Secularized Geography: 1830s-1860s; The Second Opium War and the Translation of W.A.P. Martin's Wanguo Gongfa; The New ''Sovereign Power" of China in the International Arena, 1870-1895; Li Hongzhang and the Legacies of an Empire: The Tributaries and Border Security; Conclusion; 3 China's Struggle for Survival and the New Darwinist Conception of International Society (1895-1911) |
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China Is Cut Up Like a MelonNational Salvation: Sovereignty and China's Redemption; Evolutionary Tian and the New Interpretation of International Society; International Law and Faith in Progress; Conclusion; 4 China Rejoining the World and Its Fictional Sovereignty, 1912-1949; China's Right to Exist and the Abolition of the Unequal Treaties; Orchestrating Sovereignty in the Frontiers with a Focus on Tibet; China in the League of Nations and the United Nations; Conclusion; 5 From Proletarian Revolution to Peaceful Coexistence: Sovereignty in the PRC, 1949-1989 |
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National Unification, International Law, and the Evolving Soviet IdeologyThe Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence; Taiwan, the United Nations, and International Recognition; China Opens Up and the "One Country, Two Systems" Solution to Sovereignty; Conclusion; 6 Historical Legacies, Globalization, and Chinese Sovereignty since 1989; The Failed End of History and the Myth of Chinese Absolute Sovereignty; The Enduring Struggle for Territorial Unity and the New Maritime Frontiers; Globalization and the Redefinition of Sovereignty; The Rule of International Law and International Order |
| Summary |
This book provides a comprehensive history of the emergence and the formation of the concept of sovereignty in China from the year 1840 to the present. It contributes to broadening the history of modern China by looking at the way the notion of sovereignty was gradually articulated by key Chinese intellectuals, diplomats and political figures in the unfolding of the history of international law in China, rehabilitates Chinese agency, and shows how China challenged Western Eurocentric assumptions about the progress of international law. It puts the history of international law in a global perspective, interrogating the widely-held belief of international law as universal order and exploring the ways in which its history is closely anchored to a European experience that fails to take into account how the encounter with other non-European realities has influenced its formation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 06, 2019) |
| Subject |
Sovereignty.
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Constitutional history -- China -- 19th century
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Constitutional history -- China -- 20th century
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sovereignty.
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Constitutional history
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International law
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Sovereignty
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| SUBJECT |
China -- International status
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| Subject |
China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1108651313 |
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9781108564861 |
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1108564860 |
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9781108651318 |
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