How could the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) not only survive but even thrive, regaining
the support of many Chinese citizens after the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989? Why …

The development of international law is conventionally understood as a history in which the
main characters (states and international lawyers) and events (wars and peace …

This is the first historically comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of the causes, content, and
consequences of nationalism in China, an ancient empire that has struggled to construct a …

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The history of Hong Kong is a fascinating one. It is not so much because it transformed itself
from 'a barren island with hardly a house upon it'into a great metropolis of seven million in a …

In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China
as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West. This …

“As Michel Foucault has famously stated,'knowledge is not made for understanding; it is
made for cutting'. In this spirit The Edkins–Vaughan-Williams Interventions series solicits …

Through a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and
thinkers, two of today's foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this …

This ambitious 2005 volume is a history of war, from the standpoint of international law, from
the beginning of history to the present day. Its primary focus is on legal conceptions of war …

In the late eighteenth century two expansive Eurasian empires met formally for the first time--
the Manchu or Qing dynasty of China and the maritime empire of Great Britain. The occasion …