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Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics
Chen Li
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Description for Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics
Hardback. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Num Pages: 416 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1QFH; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; JPS; KCLT1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Condition
New
Weight
697g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231173742
SKU
V9780231173742
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About Chen Li
Li Chen is associate professor at the University of Toronto and founding president of the International Society for Chinese Law and History. He has published on late imperial and modern Chinese law and society, Sino-Western encounters, and international law and empire, including a volume coedited with Madeleine Zelin called Chinese Law: Knowledge, Practice and Transformation, 1530s-1950s.
Reviews for Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics
Just when we thought no one could offer any new approach to the subject of the Sino-Western encounter during the early modern period, this book pulls us back in. Li Chen sets a new standard for any future study on this topic.
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University Li Chen makes a gift of his expertise in legal history ... Read more
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University Li Chen makes a gift of his expertise in legal history ... Read more