Western International Law and the Collapse of Imperial China: Continuing Controversy over the 鈥淐entury of Humiliation鈥�
A workshop discussion with Professor , Sir Y K Pao Chair in Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong (China).
Abstract
Professor Carty, with the collaboration of two doctoral students, Bijun Xu and Xiaoshi Zhang, will present preliminary results from three research projects currently underway. The topics covered will broadly addressed, in a critical perspective, international legal issues pertaining to the history of the relations between China and the West since the 19th century.
The goal of the discussion is to interrogate the orthodoxy of the historiography in international law and to analyze the proper roles and places respectively occupied by the West and Asia, in particular China, within it.
Sponsored by the Canada Research Chair in the Law of Human Rights and Legal Pluralism & the 缅北强奸 Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.
