Recentering the World: China and the Transformation of International Law

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Recentering the World: China and the Transformation of International Law

By Ryan Martínez Mitchell
Cambridge University Press November 2024

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ISBN-13
9781108712910
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
November 2024
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Paperback
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U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Recentering the World recovers a richly contextual, detailed history of Western-imposed legal structures in China, as well as engagements with international law by Chinese officials, jurists, and citizens. Beginning in the Late Qing era, it shows how international law functioned as a channel for power relations, techniques of economic domination, as well as novel forms of resistance. The book also radically diversifies traditionally Eurocentric accounts of modern international law's origins, demonstrating how, by the mid-twentieth century, Chinese jurists had made major contributions to international organizations and the UN system, the international judiciary, the laws of armed conflict, and more. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book is a valuable guide to China's often conflicted role in international law, its reception and contention of concepts of sovereignty, property, obligation, and autonomy, and its gradual move from the 'periphery' to a shared spot at the 'center' of global legal order.

Table of Contents

Introduction: 'In the Nineteenth Century, There was No International Law'

Part I. Preserving Stateliness, 1850–1894:
1. Universal Prosperity
2. Synarchy
3. Vast Imperium

Part II. Asserting Sovereignty, 1895–1921:
4. The Public Law of Planet Earth
5. The Problem of Equality
6. Reconstituted Hierarchies

Part III. Internationalisms, 1922–2001:
7. Changing Circumstances
8. New Orders
9. Perpetual Peace

Conclusion: From Object to Subject? – China in a World of Institutions

Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Names
Bibliography
Index
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