Law Across Imperial Borders

British Consuls and Colonial Connections on China’s Western Frontiers, 1880-1943

Emily Whewell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2024
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-8231-9 (ISBN)

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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. -- .

Law across imperial borders offers new perspectives on the complex legal connections between Britain’s presence in Western China in the western frontier regions of Yunnan and Xinjiang, and the British colonies of Burma and India. Bringing together a transnational methodology with a social-legal focus, it demonstrates how inter-Asian mobility across frontiers shaped British authority in contested frontier regions of China. It examines the role of a range of actors who helped create, constitute and contest legal practice on the frontier–including consuls, indigenous elites and cultural mediators. The book will be of interest to historians of China, the British Empire in Asia and legal history. -- .

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

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 -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	27.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Imperialism
Zusatzinfo	4 black & white illustrations, 4 maps
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	311 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-5261-8231-9 / 1526182319
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-8231-9 / 9781526182319
Zustand	Neuware