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
- 1 Universal Prosperity
- 2 Synarchy
- 3 Vast Imperium
- Part II Asserting Sovereignty, 1895–1921
- Part III Internationalisms, 1922–2001
- Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Names
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Universal Prosperity
from Part I - Preserving Stateliness, 1850–1894
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
- 1 Universal Prosperity
- 2 Synarchy
- 3 Vast Imperium
- Part II Asserting Sovereignty, 1895–1921
- Part III Internationalisms, 1922–2001
- Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Names
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Already during the period between the two Opium Wars, China and its vast potential market had become a key site for legal and administrative innovations by Western diplomats, missionaries, and traders. The Qing conception of guoti 國體 or “state form/stateliness,” in particular, was creatively redeployed in an effort to articulate a diplomatic compromise during key meetings at Tianjin, Shanghai, and Beijing between 1858 and 1860, when a new multilateral international law regime for China was crafted by the invading Western powers.
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- Recentering the WorldChina and the Transformation of International Law, pp. 11 - 33Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022