Chinese law in imperial eyes : sovereignty, justice, and transcultural politics /

"How did American schoolchildren, French philosophers, Russian Sinologists, Dutch merchants, and British lawyers imagine China and Chinese law? What happened when agents of presumably dominant Western empires had to endure the humiliations and anxieties of maintaining a profitable but precariou...

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Main Author: Chen, Li (Professor of History and Sociolegal Studies) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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