China's Unequal Treaties

Narrating National History

Dong Wang (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

190 Seiten

2005
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-1208-3 (ISBN)

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This study, based on primary sources, deals with the linguistic development and polemical uses of the expression Unequal Treaties, which refers to the treaties China signed between 1842 and 1946. Although this expression has occupied a central position in both Chinese collective memory and Chinese and English historiographies, this is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of China's encounters with the outside world as manifested in the rhetoric surrounding the Unequal Treaties. Author Dong Wang argues that competing forces within China have narrated and renarrated the history of the treaties in an effort to consolidate national unity, international independence, and political legitimacy and authority. In the twentieth century, she shows, China's experience with these treaties helped to determine their use of international law. Of great relevance for students of contemporary China and Chinese history, as well as Chinese international law and politics, this book illuminates how various Chinese political actors have defined and redefined the past using the framework of the Unequal Treaties.

Dong Wang is distinguished professor of history and director of the Wellington Koo Institute at Shanghai University since 2016, a Chatham House member, and a research associate at the Fairbank Center of Harvard University since 2002. Her books include The United States and China: A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present and Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Tracing the Contours of the "Unequal Treaties" in Imperial China, 1840-1911
Chapter 3 Implementing and Contesting International Law: The "Unequal Treaties" and the Foreign Ministry of the Beijing Government, 1912-1928
Chapter 4 Disseminating the Rhetoric of Bupingdeng Tiaoyue, 1923-1927
Chapter 5 Redeeming "a Century of National Ignominy:" Nationalism and Party Rivalry over the Unequal Treaties, 1928-1947
Chapter 6 Universalizing International Law and the Chinese Study of the Unequal Treaties: The Paradox of Equality and Inequality
Chapter 7 Conclusion: Defining and Redefining the Past
Chapter 8 Glossary

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.10.2005
Reihe/Serie	AsiaWorld
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 238 mm
Gewicht	472 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	0-7391-1208-2 / 0739112082
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-1208-3 / 9780739112083
Zustand	Neuware