Sovereignty in China: A Genealogy of a Concept Since 1840

ISBN-13: 9781108463942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 299 str.

Maria Adele Carrai

Opis

Provides a comprehensive history of the emergence and formation of the concept of sovereignty in China from the year 1840 to the present.

Recenzje

'This well-researched and stylishly presented work charters the historical development and the changing meanings of a transplanted concept in a foreign soil far away from its birthplace. Carrai persuasively argues that the meaning and scope of a concept can grow independent of its origin and interact with the environment it finds itself in, thus acquiring a new life of its own … This book has contributed to our appreciation of China's international community engagement and international law, not only of the historical transformations that have taken place, but also in terms of understanding the present-day Chinese mentality.' Xingzhong Yu, Pacific Affairs

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. International law and the sinocentric ritual system: a nineteenth-century clash of normative orders; 2. Secularizing a sacred empire: early translations and uses of international law; 3. China's struggle for survival and the new Darwinist conception of international society (1895–1911); 4. China rejoining the world and its fictional sovereignty, 1912–1949; 5. From Proletarian revolution to peaceful coexistence: sovereignty in the PRC, 1949–1989; Conclusion.