{"product_id":"extradition-and-empire-sovereignty-and-subjecthood-in-hong-kong-hardback-9781009356930","title":"Extradition and Empire; Sovereignty and Subjecthood in Hong Kong (Hardback) 9781009356930","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eExtradition and Empire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSovereignty and Subjecthood in Hong Kong\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUncovers the interwoven origins of British colonial rule in Hong Kong and the British imperial law of extradition.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIvan Lee (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009356930, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 July 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e260 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.49 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Lee provides a careful account of extradition law's fitful development in Hong Kong, showing how it has always been entangled with adjacent practices like deportation and rendition. Though we often imagine law being made in treaties, Lee shows its genesis in the ad hoc choices of colonial governors, judges, and other law officers. He also reveals the changing meanings of borders, as the extra-territorial claims to jurisdiction of overlapping sovereignties operated in surprising ways across law's empire. This is a must-read for lawyers and historians who want to understand why and how extradition came to occupy the place it holds in international law.' Paul Halliday, University of Virginia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn the first book-length study of the imperial history of extradition in Hong Kong, Ivan Lee shows how British judges, lawyers, and officials navigated the nature of extradition, debated its legalities, and distinguished it over time from other modalities of criminal jurisdiction – including deportation, rendition, and trial and punishment under territorial and extraterritorial laws. These complex debates were rooted in the contested legal status of Chinese subjects under the Opium War treaties of 1842–43. They also intersected wider shifts and tensions in British ideas of territorial sovereignty, criminal justice and procedure, and the legal rights and liabilities of British subjects and alien persons in British territory. By the 1870s, a new area of imperial law emerged as Britain incorporated a frontier colony into an increasingly territorial and legally homogenous empire. This important perspective revises our understanding of the legal origins of colonial Hong Kong and British imperialism in China.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e List of Maps\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Dimensions of Extradition and Empire\u003cbr\u003e 1. Improvising Sovereignty\u003cbr\u003e 2. Domesticating Mobility\u003cbr\u003e 3. Navigating Disorder\u003cbr\u003e 4. Rationalising Reciprocity\u003cbr\u003e 5. Founding Alsatia\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Legacies of Extradition\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Legal history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Legal history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Legal%20history%20%5BLAZ%5D%22\"\u003eLAZ\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52413990568216,"sku":"9781009356930","price":85.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009356930i.jpg?v=1784334094","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/extradition-and-empire-sovereignty-and-subjecthood-in-hong-kong-hardback-9781009356930","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}