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By : Li Chen
Book Synopsis :
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 .
Book Detail :
Tittle : Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics
Author : Li Chen
Pages : 416 pages
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Language :
ISBN-10 : 023117375X
ISBN-13 : 9780231173759
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