The Resource Chinese law in imperial eyes : sovereignty, justice, & transcultural politics, Li Chen
Chinese law in imperial eyes : sovereignty, justice, & transcultural politics, Li Chen
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- Summary
- "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 precarious relationship with China? In Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes, Li Chen provides a richly textured analysis of these related issues and their intersection with law, culture, and politics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Using a wide array of sources, Chen's study focuses on the power dynamics of Sino-Western relations during the formative century before the First Opium War (1839-1842). He highlights the centrality of law to modern imperial ideology and politics and brings new insight to the origins of comparative Chinese law in the West, the First Opium War, and foreign extraterritoriality in China. The shifting balance of economic and political power formed and transformed knowledge of China and Chinese law in different contact zones. Chen argues that recovering the variegated and contradictory roles of Chinese law in Western "modernization" helps provincialize the subsequent Euro-Americentric discourse of global modernity. Chen draws attention to important yet underanalyzed sites in which imperial sovereignty, national identity, cultural tradition, or international law and order were defined and restructured. His valuable case studies show how constructed differences between societies were hardened into cultural or racial boundaries and then politicized to rationalize international conflicts and hierarchy."--Publisher's description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 400 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780231173759
- Label
- Chinese law in imperial eyes : sovereignty, justice, & transcultural politics
- Title
- Chinese law in imperial eyes
- Title remainder
- sovereignty, justice, & transcultural politics
- Statement of responsibility
- Li Chen
- Subject
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- Law -- China -- History
- Sovereignty
- Sociological jurisprudence -- China -- History
- Criminal law
- Justice, Administration of
- Exterritoriality
- History
- China
- Justice, Administration of -- China
- Exterritoriality
- Da Qing lü
- Sovereignty
- Criminal law -- China -- History
- Sociological jurisprudence
- Law
- Da Qing lü
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 precarious relationship with China? In Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes, Li Chen provides a richly textured analysis of these related issues and their intersection with law, culture, and politics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Using a wide array of sources, Chen's study focuses on the power dynamics of Sino-Western relations during the formative century before the First Opium War (1839-1842). He highlights the centrality of law to modern imperial ideology and politics and brings new insight to the origins of comparative Chinese law in the West, the First Opium War, and foreign extraterritoriality in China. The shifting balance of economic and political power formed and transformed knowledge of China and Chinese law in different contact zones. Chen argues that recovering the variegated and contradictory roles of Chinese law in Western "modernization" helps provincialize the subsequent Euro-Americentric discourse of global modernity. Chen draws attention to important yet underanalyzed sites in which imperial sovereignty, national identity, cultural tradition, or international law and order were defined and restructured. His valuable case studies show how constructed differences between societies were hardened into cultural or racial boundaries and then politicized to rationalize international conflicts and hierarchy."--Publisher's description
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Chen, Li
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Law
- Sociological jurisprudence
- Exterritoriality
- Sovereignty
- Criminal law
- Justice, Administration of
- Criminal law
- Exterritoriality
- Justice, Administration of
- Law
- Sociological jurisprudence
- Sovereignty
- China
- Label
- Chinese law in imperial eyes : sovereignty, justice, & transcultural politics, Li Chen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-375) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xii, 400 pages
- Isbn
- 9780231173759
- Lccn
- 2015003030
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Note
- GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)900869934
- Label
- Chinese law in imperial eyes : sovereignty, justice, & transcultural politics, Li Chen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-375) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xii, 400 pages
- Isbn
- 9780231173759
- Lccn
- 2015003030
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Note
- GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)900869934
Subject
- China
- Criminal law
- Criminal law -- China -- History
- Da Qing lü
- Da Qing lü
- Exterritoriality
- Exterritoriality
- History
- Justice, Administration of
- Justice, Administration of -- China
- Law
- Law -- China -- History
- Sociological jurisprudence
- Sociological jurisprudence -- China -- History
- Sovereignty
- Sovereignty
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