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Author Kroncke, Jedidiah Joseph, author.

Title The futility of law and development : China and the dangers of exporting American law / Jedidiah J. Kroncke
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 358 pages)
Contents The reception of Chinese law in revolutionary America -- Extraterritoriality and evolution in the 19th century -- The American missionary and early American legal reform in China -- The solvency of China in early American Internationalism -- Science, professionalization, and the export of American law -- The Chinese republic and America's missionary reformers -- The special relationship and the rule of law -- The "loss of China" and export as legal nationalism
Summary This text uses the Sino-American relationship to trace the decline of American legal cosmopolitanism from the Revolutionary era until today
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Law -- China -- American influences
Law reform -- China
Technical assistance, American -- China
Law -- United States -- Chinese influences
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Diplomatic relations.
Law -- American influences.
Law -- Chinese influences.
Law reform.
Technical assistance, American.
SUBJECT China -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- China
Subject China.
United States.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780190233532
0190233532
9780190233549
0190233540