Book contents
- Recentering the World
- Law in Context
- Recentering the World
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Archives and Databases Consulted
- Treaties, Agreements, and Legislation
- Cases
- Introduction
- Part I Preserving Stateliness, 1850–1894
- Part II Asserting Sovereignty, 1895–1921
- 4 The Public Law of Planet Earth
- 5 The Problem of Equality
- 6 Reconstituted Hierarchies
- Part III Internationalisms, 1922–2001
- Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Names
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Reconstituted Hierarchies
from Part II - Asserting Sovereignty, 1895–1921
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2022
Book contents
- Recentering the World
- Law in Context
- Recentering the World
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Archives and Databases Consulted
- Treaties, Agreements, and Legislation
- Cases
- Introduction
- Part I Preserving Stateliness, 1850–1894
- Part II Asserting Sovereignty, 1895–1921
- 4 The Public Law of Planet Earth
- 5 The Problem of Equality
- 6 Reconstituted Hierarchies
- Part III Internationalisms, 1922–2001
- Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Names
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter first explores in general the often forgotten contributions to the birth of international law study and practice in China by the Beiyang or “warlord” government, first dominated by the former Qing Viceroy Yuan Shikai. Some achievements of China’s first holders of international law degrees from elite foreign universities, which included arguments and publications that exerted an immediate and at times remarkable impact upon the international law field in the West, have been almost forgotten today.
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- Recentering the WorldChina and the Transformation of International Law, pp. 121 - 142Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022