TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mitchell,Ryan Martínez
TI  - Recentering the world: China and the transformation of international law
T2  - Law in context
SN  - 9781108712910
U1  - 341.0951 
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - International law
KW  - Sovereignty
KW  - Equality before the law
KW  - LAW / International
N2  - "Recentering the World recovers a richly contextual, detailed history of Western-imposed legal structures in China, as well as engagements with international law by Chinese officials, jurists, and citizens. Beginning in the Late Qing era, it shows how international law functioned as a channel for power relations, techniques of economic domination, and novel forms of resistance. The book also radically diversifies traditionally Eurocentric accounts of modern international law's origins, demonstrating how, by the mid twentieth century, Chinese jurists had made major contributions to international organizations and the United Nations system, the international judiciary, the laws of armed conflict, and more. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book is a valuable guide to China's often conflicted role in international law, its reception and contention of concepts of sovereignty, property, obligation, and autonomy, and its gradual move from the "periphery" to a shared spot at the "center" of global legal order"--
ER  -