Title Chinese law in imperial eyes : sovereignty, justice, and transcultural politics / Li Chen

Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 400 pages) : illustrations Series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Contents Imperial archives and historiography of western extraterritoriality in China -- Translation of the Qing code and colonial origins of comparative Chinese law -- Chinese law and society in the formation of European modernity -- Sentimental imperialism and the global spectacle of Chinese punishments -- Law and empire in the making of the first Opium War Summary "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 China and Chinese law in different contact zones. Chen argues that recovering the variegated and contradictory roles of Chinese law in Western "modernization" helps provincialize the subsequent Euro-Americentric discourse of global modernity. Chen draws attention to important yet underanalyzed sites in which imperial sovereignty, national identity, cultural tradition, or international law and order were defined and restructured. His valuable case studies show how constructed differences between societies were hardened into cultural or racial boundaries and then politicized to rationalize international conflicts and hierarchy."--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Electronic resource, viewed: January 4, 2023 SUBJECT Da Qing lü. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83159067 Da Qing lü fast Subject Law -- China -- History Sociological jurisprudence -- China -- History Exterritoriality. Sovereignty. Criminal law -- China -- History Justice, Administration of -- China sovereignty. LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs Criminal law Exterritoriality Justice, Administration of Law Sociological jurisprudence Sovereignty China Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2015003030 ISBN 9780231540216 0231540213

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