Extradition and Empire
Sovereignty and Subjecthood in Hong Kong
Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-35693-0 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-35693-0 (ISBN)
The first book-length study of the history of extradition in Hong Kong, this important account revises our understanding of the legal origins of colonial Hong Kong and British imperialism in China. For students and scholars interested in the history of modern China, legal history, and international law.
In the first book-length study of the imperial history of extradition in Hong Kong, Ivan Lee shows how British judges, lawyers, and officials navigated the nature of extradition, debated its legalities, and distinguished it over time from other modalities of criminal jurisdiction – including deportation, rendition, and trial and punishment under territorial and extraterritorial laws. These complex debates were rooted in the contested legal status of Chinese subjects under the Opium War treaties of 1842–43. They also intersected wider shifts and tensions in British ideas of territorial sovereignty, criminal justice and procedure, and the legal rights and liabilities of British subjects and alien persons in British territory. By the 1870s, a new area of imperial law emerged as Britain incorporated a frontier colony into an increasingly territorial and legally homogenous empire. This important perspective revises our understanding of the legal origins of colonial Hong Kong and British imperialism in China.
In the first book-length study of the imperial history of extradition in Hong Kong, Ivan Lee shows how British judges, lawyers, and officials navigated the nature of extradition, debated its legalities, and distinguished it over time from other modalities of criminal jurisdiction – including deportation, rendition, and trial and punishment under territorial and extraterritorial laws. These complex debates were rooted in the contested legal status of Chinese subjects under the Opium War treaties of 1842–43. They also intersected wider shifts and tensions in British ideas of territorial sovereignty, criminal justice and procedure, and the legal rights and liabilities of British subjects and alien persons in British territory. By the 1870s, a new area of imperial law emerged as Britain incorporated a frontier colony into an increasingly territorial and legally homogenous empire. This important perspective revises our understanding of the legal origins of colonial Hong Kong and British imperialism in China.
Ivan Lee is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore. His research centres on the history of ideas and practices of criminal law, jurisdiction, and procedure in the British Empire.
Acknowledgements; List of Maps; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Dimensions of Extradition and Empire; 1. Improvising Sovereignty; 2. Domesticating Mobility; 3. Navigating Disorder; 4. Rationalising Reciprocity; 5. Founding Alsatia; Conclusion: Legacies of Extradition; Notes; Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.06.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Legal History |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 490 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-35693-3 / 1009356933 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-35693-0 / 9781009356930 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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