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Recentering the World

China and the Transformation of International Law

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvRyan Martínez Mitchell,Ryan Martínez Mitchell,Ryan Martinez (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Mitchell

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Recentering the World recovers a richly contextual, detailed history of Western-imposed legal structures in China, as well as engagements with international law by Chinese officials, jurists, and citizens. Beginning in the Late Qing era, it shows how international law functioned as a channel for power relations, techniques of economic domination, as well as novel forms of resistance. The book also radically diversifies traditionally Eurocentric accounts of modern international law's origins, demonstrating how, by the mid-twentieth century, Chinese jurists had made major contributions to international organizations and the UN system, the international judiciary, the laws of armed conflict, and more. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book is a valuable guide to China's often conflicted role in international law, its reception and contention of concepts of sovereignty, property, obligation, and autonomy, and its gradual move from the 'periphery' to a shared spot at the 'center' of global legal order.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-11-03
Mått176 x 250 x 23 mm
Vikt760 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLaw in Context
Antal sidor336
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108498968

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Introduction: 'In the Nineteenth Century, There was No International Law'; Part I. Preserving Stateliness, 1850–1894: 1. Universal Prosperity; 2. Synarchy; 3. Vast Imperium; Part II. Asserting Sovereignty, 1895–1921: 4. The Public Law of Planet Earth; 5. The Problem of Equality; 6. Reconstituted Hierarchies; Part III. Internationalisms, 1922–2001: 7. Changing Circumstances; 8. New Orders; 9. Perpetual Peace; Conclusion: From Object to Subject? – China in a World of Institutions; Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Names; Bibliography; Index.

'China's engagement with Western international law, Ryan Martínez Mitchell shows in this field-defining study, is neither recent nor rejectionist. Instead, starting in the 19th century, Chinese actors interacted with once foreign concepts and terms in light of local imaginaries, and Chinese engagement reshaped international law in turn. The results are a tour de force of research and reconceptualization of how the legal order of the contemporary world came about, and where alternative global internationalisms might one day lead.' Samuel Moyn, Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History, Yale University