Jenny Huangfu Day

Transborder Fugitives, Extradition, and Political Crimes in Modern China

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how the concept of political crime evolved in modern China, not only from a domestic legal point of view, but as a transborder legal and diplomatic process open to interpretation and maneuvering by both state authorities and the broader transborder population.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9781009456036
• ISBN-10: 1009456032
• Artikelnr.: 74264985

Autorenporträt

Jenny Huangfu Day is Associate Professor of History and the Francis Young Tang '61 Chair in China Studies at Skidmore College. She is the author of Qing Travelers to the Far West: Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
1. Introduction
2. The origin of the 'Political Offense Exception' in Sino-British extradition
3. The debate over judicial torture and the failure of extradition
4. Law and justice at the interstices of empires
5. The invention of the 'political offender'
6. The rise of Guoshifan and the Qing's penal code reform
7. Republican China's quest for judicial sovereignty and the criminalization of Communism
8. Epilogue
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.