Lexington Books
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978-0-7391-1208-3 • Hardback • October 2005 • $97.00 • (£75.00)
978-0-7391-2806-0 • Paperback • April 2008 • $46.99 • (£36.00)
978-0-7391-5297-3 • eBook • October 2005 • $44.50 • (£34.00)
Dong Wang is chair professor of contemporary Chinese history and director of the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku in Finland.
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
This is a perceptive study of a vitally important topic. Dong Wang is less interested in the unequal treaties as such than in the range of discourses (moral, legal, and rhetorical) they have elicited over the past century and the tie-ins between these discourses and Chinese politics and nationalism. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in the historical underpinnings of China's current view of the world and its place in it....
— Paul A. Cohen
Provides a new perspective for viewing unequal treaties rhetoric as a dynamic concept linked up with the construction of national identity.....
— Samual Chan
I would recommend the book to my students.....
— J.Y. Wong
This insightful book shows masterful control of a wide range of Chinese and Western sources, and spans the mid-nineteenth century to the present in an interpretive tour de force. Historians of modern China will never again look at the Unequal Treaties inquite the same way. In analyzing and interpreting the construction and then the contested discourse centered on these treaties, and what they came to mean for almost a century of symbolic importance to Chinese nationalism, she has given us a fresh look atan unexamined but central theme in the changing dynamics of Chinese visions of their own modern history...
— Daniel Bays