The Unequal Treaties

The Unequal Treaties
Author: Rodney Gilbert
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1976
Genre: China
ISBN:

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Sovereignty in China

Sovereignty in China
Author: Maria Adele Carrai
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2019-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108474195

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This book provides a comprehensive history of the emergence and the formation of the concept of sovereignty in China from the year 1840 to the present. It contributes to broadening the history of modern China by looking at the way the notion of sovereignty was gradually articulated by key Chinese intellectuals, diplomats and political figures in the unfolding of the history of international law in China, rehabilitates Chinese agency, and shows how China challenged Western Eurocentric assumptions about the progress of international law. It puts the history of international law in a global perspective, interrogating the widely-held belief of international law as universal order and exploring the ways in which its history is closely anchored to a European experience that fails to take into account how the encounter with other non-European realities has influenced its formation.

Revision of Unequal Treaties

Revision of Unequal Treaties
Author: Chao-Hsin Chu
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2018-08-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781391311241

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Excerpt from Revision of Unequal Treaties: China Appeals to the League of Nations; Official Text of the Speeches of Mr. Chao-Hsin Chu and Press Comments Thereon Mr. Chao-hsin chu (china): First of all, in the name of the Chinese delegation and on behalf of the Chinese Government, I wish to express our appreciation and admiration of the work accomplished by the Council and the Secretariat during the past year. The League deserves to be congratulated upon its progress and success. Owing to the non-observance of the geographical principle in the election of non-permanent Members to the Council, China has not yet been able to' reobtain her seat on the Council since 1923, and the Chinese people have not known whether the League still has its eye on the continent of Asia. But I can assure you that the attitude of the Chinese Government as a supporter of the League remains unchanged. Moreover, there are in China many warm well-wishers of the League. Chinese public opinion on matters of international interest runs very high to -d.ay What China most expects from the League is that her international position and the privileges to which she is entitled shall be fully recognised. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Revision of Unequal Treaties

Revision of Unequal Treaties
Author: Chao-Hsin Chu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1926
Genre: China
ISBN:

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China and the International System, 1840-1949

China and the International System, 1840-1949
Author: David Scott
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2008-11-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0791477428

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Examines the images, hopes, and fears that were evoked during China’s century-long subservience to external powers.

Imperial Twilight

Imperial Twilight
Author: Stephen R. Platt
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307961745

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As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.