Recentering the world : China and the transformation of international law / Ryan Martínez Mitchell, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Recentering the world : China and the transformation of international law / Ryan Martínez Mitchell, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

1 online resource (xviii, 316 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Law in context.

Recentering 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.

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