The topic of this book is the early introduction and reception of international law in China. International law is studied as part of the introduction of the We

Asserting that litigation in late imperial China was a form of documentary warfare, this book offers a social analysis of the men who composed legal documents.

This is the first systematic analysis of the early introduction and reception of international law as a Western political and legal science in China. Internatio

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 contr

The essays in Powerful Arguments reconstruct the standards of validity underlying argumentative practices in a wide array of late imperial Chinese discourses, f