Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics

ISBN-13: 9780231173759 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 416 str.

Li Chen

Opis

Focusing on the power dynamics of Sino-Western relations during the century before the First Opium War, Li Chen 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 and foreign extraterritoriality in China.