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Grounds of judgment : extraterritoriality and imperial power in nineteenth-century China and Japan / Pär Kristoffer Cassel.

Title
Grounds of judgment : extraterritoriality and imperial power in nineteenth-century China and Japan / Pär Kristoffer Cassel.
Author
Cassel, Pär Kristoffer.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

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Description
xi, 260 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, the 19th century encounter between East Asia and the Western world has been narrated as a legal encounter. This book explores extraterritoriality and the ways in which Western power operated in East Asia from the 1820s to the 1920s.
Series Statement
Oxford studies in international history
Uniform Title
  • University press scholarship online.
  • Oxford studies in international history.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Excavating extraterritoriality : the legacies of legal pluralism, subjecthood, and state-building in China and Japan -- Codifying extraterritoriality : the Chinese "unequal treaties" -- Institutionalizing extraterritoriality : the mixed court and the British Supreme Court in Shanghai -- Exporting extraterritoriality : the evolution of jurisdiction over foreigners in Japan from the "expulsion edict" to the "Treaty of Tianjin" -- Executing extraterritoriality : Sino-Japanese cases under the Treaty of Tianjin -- Expelling extraterritoriality : treaty revision in Meiji Japan and Qing China, 1860-1912.
ISBN
  • 9780199792122 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780199792054 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0199792054 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2011019517
OCLC
  • 728892090
  • SCSB-13730786
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library