Law Across Imperial Borders: British Consuls and Colonial Connections on China’s Western Frontiers, 1880-1943...

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Emily Whewell

Law Across Imperial Borders

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

Emily Whewell

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Manchester University Press
24 September 2024

Colonialism & imperialism; Legal history

Series: Studies in Imperialism

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.

By: Emily Whewell
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 311g
ISBN: 9781526182319
ISBN 10: 1526182319
Series: Studies in Imperialism
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 24 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 -- .

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

Reviews for Law Across Imperial Borders: British Consuls and Colonial Connections on China’s Western Frontiers, 1880-1943

'Law across imperial borders significantly enriches our understanding of the British consular presence in frontier China, and it consequently will interest different audiences. Scholars of the British Empire will find a study of colonial law expanding beyond its borders. For historians of Chinese borderlands, Whewell clarifies and greatly nuances the vicissitudes of British interests and their institutional and political contexts.' Eric Schluessel, American Journal of Legal History -- .