Grounds of judgment
Subtitle: extraterritoriality and imperial power in nineteenth-century China and Japan
By: Pär Kristoffer Cassel
Series: Oxford studies in international history
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780199792054
Subjects: Europeans; Americans; Exterritoriality; History; Legal status, laws; Capitulations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-250) and index.
Table of contents: title: Excavating extraterritoriality : the legacies of legal pluralism, subjecthood, and state-building in China and Japan; title: Codifying extraterritoriality : the Chinese "unequal treaties"; title: Institutionalizing extraterritoriality : the mixed court and the British Supreme Court in Shanghai; title: Exporting extraterritoriality : the evolution of jurisdiction over foreigners in Japan from the "expulsion edict" to the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Tianjin; title: Executing extraterritoriality : Sino-Japanese cases, 1870-95; title: Expelling extraterritoriality : treaty revision in Meiji Japan and Qing China, 1860-1912.