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