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EBOOK Grounds of Judgment:Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Jap
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199924288
EAN: 52457986EB
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Stron: 272
Data wydania: 2011
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Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, the nineteenth century encounter        between East Asia and the Western world has been narrated as a legal encounter.          Commercial treaties--negotiated by diplomats and focused on trade--framed the        relationships among Tokugawa-Meiji Japan, Qing China, Choson Korea, and Western        countries including Britain, France, and the United States. These treaties created a        new legal order, very different than the colonial relationships that the West forged        with other parts of the globe, which developed in dialogue with local precedents,        local understandings of power, and local institutions. They established the rules by        which foreign sojourners worked in East Asia, granting them near complete immunity        from local laws and jurisdiction. The laws of extraterritoriality looked similar on        paper but had very different trajectories in different East Asian countries.Par        Cassel's first book explores extraterritoriality and the ways in which Western power        operated in Japan and China from the 1820s to the 1920s. In Japan, the treaties        established in the 1850s were abolished after drastic regime change a decade later        and replaced by European-style reciprocal agreements by the turn of the century. In        China, extraterritoriality stood for a hundred years, with treaties governing nearly        one hundred treaty ports, extensive Christian missionary activity, foreign        controlled railroads and mines, and other foreign interests, and of such complexity        that even international lawyers couldn't easily interpret them. Extraterritoriality        provided the springboard for foreign domination and has left Asia with a legacy of        suspicion towards international law and organizations. The issue of unequal treaties        has had a lasting effect on relations between East Asia and the West.Drawing on        primary sources in Chinese, Japanese, Manchu, and several European languages, Cassel        has written the first book to deal with exterritoriality in Sino-Japanese relations        before 1895 and the triangular relationship between China, Japan, and the West.          Grounds of Judgment is a groundbreaking history of Asian engagement with the outside        world and within the region, with broader applications to understanding        international history, law, and politics.

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