The futility of law and development
Subtitle: China and the dangers of exporting American law
By: Jedidiah J. Kroncke
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780190233525
Subjects: Law reform; American Technical assistance; Law; Chinese influences; Foreign relations; American influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-346) and index.
Table of contents: title: The reception of Chinese law in revolutionary America; title: Extraterritoriality and evolution in the 19th century; title: The American missionary and early American legal reform in China; title: The solvency of China in early American Internationalism; title: Science, professionalization, and the export of American law; title: The Chinese republic and America's missionary reformers; title: The special relationship and the rule of law; title: The "loss of China" and export as legal nationalism; title: Conclusion.