{"product_id":"recentering-the-world-china-and-the-transformation-of-international-law-paperback-softback-9781108712910","title":"Recentering the World; China and the Transformation of International Law (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108712910","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRecentering the World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eChina and the Transformation of International Law\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA comprehensive new account of China's entry into the global legal order and its role in helping to reshape it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRyan Martínez Mitchell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108712910, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 14 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.5 x 17 x 1.9 cm, 0.586 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'An excellent conceptual history of how China engaged with Western-made international law in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Mitchell moves fluidly between domestic and transnational spheres of thought, and between different layers of conceptual meaning as they are constantly reconstructed during this era.' Taisu Zhang, Professor of Law, Yale Law School and author of The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation (2022)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eRecentering 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: 'In the Nineteenth Century, There was No International Law'\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Preserving Stateliness, 1850–1894: 1. Universal Prosperity\u003cbr\u003e 2. Synarchy\u003cbr\u003e 3. Vast Imperium\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Asserting Sovereignty, 1895–1921: 4. The Public Law of Planet Earth\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Problem of Equality\u003cbr\u003e 6. Reconstituted Hierarchies\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Internationalisms, 1922–2001: 7. Changing Circumstances\u003cbr\u003e 8. New Orders\u003cbr\u003e 9. Perpetual Peace\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: From Object to Subject? – China in a World of Institutions\u003cbr\u003e Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Names\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political geography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political geography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20geography%20%5BRGCP%5D%22\"\u003eRGCP\u003c\/a\u003e], Public international law [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Public international law\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Public%20international%20law%20%5BLBB%5D%22\"\u003eLBB\u003c\/a\u003e], Political parties [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political parties\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20parties%20%5BJPL%5D%22\"\u003eJPL\u003c\/a\u003e], Political science \u0026amp; theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political science \u0026amp; theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20science%20\u0026amp;%20theory%20%5BJPA%5D%22\"\u003eJPA\u003c\/a\u003e], Asian history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Asian history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Asian%20history%20%5BHBJF%5D%22\"\u003eHBJF\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":52501408121112,"sku":"9781108712910","price":20.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781108712910i.jpg?v=1786236062","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/recentering-the-world-china-and-the-transformation-of-international-law-paperback-softback-9781108712910","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}