Emily Whewell

Law across imperial borders

British consuls and colonial connections on China's western frontiers, 1880-1943

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is the story of British consuls at the edge of the British and Chinese empires. By embracing local norms and adapting to transfrontier migration, consuls created forms of transfrontier legal authority.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 533g
• ISBN-13: 9781526140029
• ISBN-10: 1526140020
• Artikelnr.: 57477093

Autorenporträt

Emily Whewell is a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations Note on transliteration
List of British representatives in Kashgar List of Tengyue consuls
Introduction Part I: The Burma-China frontier 1 Treaty-making and
treaty-breaking: transfrontier salt and opium, 1904-11 2 On the move:
people crossing the frontier, 1911-25 3 Consuls and Frontier Meetings,
1909-35 Part II: Through the mountains and across the desert: Xinjiang 4
Isolation and connection: law between semicolonial China and the Raj 5
Administering justice and mediating local custom 6 The British end game in
Xinjiang: the decline of consular rights, 1917-39 Conclusion Key terms
Select bibliography Index