Transborder Fugitives, Extradition, and Political Crimes in Modern China

Jenny Huangfu Day is Associate Professor of History and the Francis Young Tang '61 Chair in China Studies at Skidmore College. She is the author of Qing Travelers to the Far West: Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China (2018).

• List of figures; List of tables; 1. Introduction; 2. The origin of the 'Political Offense Exception' in Sino-British extradition; 3. The debate over judicial torture and the failure of extradition; 4. Law and justice at the interstices of empires; 5. The invention of the 'political offender'; 6. The rise of Guoshifan and the Qing's penal code reform; 7. Republican China's quest for judicial sovereignty and the criminalization of Communism; 8. Epilogue; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

'This book offers a highly compelling account of how struggles over fugitives, political crimes, and extradition shaped China's contested path to legal and political modernity from the 1860s through the 1930s. Drawing on rich archival research and incisive case studies, it reframes modern Chinese history through the lens of international law, jurisdictional conflict, and cross-border diplomacy. An exemplary work of interdisciplinary legal and political history, it makes an original and significant contribution to the histories of law, empire, and modern China.' Li Chen, author of Chinese Law in Imperia Eyes: Justice, Sovereignty, and Transcultural Politics