Sovereignty in China - A Genealogy of a Concept Since 1840

Provides a comprehensive history of the emergence and formation of the concept of sovereignty in China from the year 1840 to the present.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. International law and the sinocentric ritual system: a nineteenth-century clash of normative orders; 2. Secularizing a sacred empire: early translations and uses of international law; 3. China's struggle for survival and the new Darwinist conception of international society (1895-1911); 4. China rejoining the world and its fictional sovereignty, 1912-1949; 5. From Proletarian revolution to peaceful coexistence: sovereignty in the PRC, 1949-1989; Conclusion.

About the author

Maria Adele Carrai is currently a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a Fellow at Harvard University Asia Center. She completed a Ph.D. in Law at the University of Hong Kong in 2016, where she received the Award for Outstanding Postgraduate Research Student for 2015–16, the Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship and the Swire Scholarship. Since she completed her Ph.D., she has been Princeton-Harvard China and the World Fellow (2017–18), New York University Global Hauser Fellow (2016–17), Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence (2015–17). Her research has appeared in various peer-review journals and she has spoken in a variety of fora.

Summary

Provides a comprehensive history of the emergence and formation of the concept of sovereignty in China from the year 1840 to the present. It will be of interest to students and scholars of international and comparative law as well as scholars of modern China and policy makers.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Adele Carrai, Maria Adele (Katholieke Universiteit Leuve Carrai, Maria Adele (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Carrai
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781108474191
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47419-1
• No. of pages: 298
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Internati; Cambridge Studies in Internati; Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Ethnic Studies, LAW / Legal History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, LAW / International, LAW / Comparative, International Relations, International Law, Legal History, comparative law, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity