Sovereignty in China

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Provides a comprehensive history of the emergence and formation of the concept of sovereignty in China from the year 1840 to the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. International law and the sinocentric ritual system: a nineteenth-century clash of normative orders; 2. Secularizing a sacred empire: early translations and uses of international law; 3. China's struggle for survival and the new Darwinist conception of international society (1895-1911); 4. China rejoining the world and its fictional sovereignty, 1912-1949; 5. From Proletarian revolution to peaceful coexistence: sovereignty in the PRC, 1949-1989; Conclusion.