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Author : Peter Wesley-Smith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Unequal Treaty, 1898-1997 written by Peter Wesley-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Wesley-Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Unequal Treaty, 1898-1997 written by Peter Wesley-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the history and development of the Convention of Peking 1898 and the lease of the New Territories to Great Britain by China. This new post-handover edition includes a great deal of historical information made newly available from recently declassified British government records. The author also outlines the Joint Declaration and the events leading up to the expiration of the lease.
Author : Hurst Hannum
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812215724
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination written by Hurst Hannum and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The content of autonomy
Author : Shiona Airlie
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888028928
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Thistle and Bamboo written by Shiona Airlie and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial civil servant, Confucian scholar, and collector of Chinese art, Sir James Stewart Lockhart spent more than forty years in Hong Kong and Weihaiwei — the former British leased territory in northern China. His career reflects tension and upheaval in the emerging colony of Hong Kong and in a China rapidly giving way to civil war. In her vivid biography of Stewart Lockhart, Shiona Airlie presents a portrait of an imperial official who fought against racism, strove to preserve the Chinese way of life, and was treated by Chinese mandarins as one of their own. Sir James Stewart Lockhart (1858–1937) was a Scot who served for more than 40 years as a colonial official in Hong Kong and Weihaiwei — Britain’s leased territory in northern China. In Hong Kong (1879– 1902) he rose to the highest levels and brought a refreshingly different approach to colonial rule. He immersed himself in Chinese culture, made friends with local leaders, strengthened Chinese institutions, and fought against racism. When the colony was extended in 1898 he was given the important task of delineating the boundaries of the New Territories and organising its administration. As Britain's first Civil Commissioner (1902–21) in remote Weihaiwei, he brought a unique approach to administration — a combination of Scottish laird and Confucian mandarin — and maintained peace and order during troubled times. A fine Chinese scholar, he amassed a large collection of Chinese coins, art and artefacts. Shiona Airlie's lively account of Stewart Lockhart's life and times makes use of his private papers and extensive archival research. This classic study provides valuable insight into the character, career and friends of an imperial official of rare talent and achievement.
Author : Robert Kolb
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 103530046X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (353 download)
Download or read book The Law of Treaties written by Robert Kolb and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting up-to-date case law and a freshly updated bibliography, this second edition of The Law of Treaties is a valuable addition to contemporary international law scholarship. It offers much-needed clarity on complicated legal cases and questions while maintaining a highly readable style.
Author : Martin Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019872764X
Total Pages : 795 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Cases & Materials on International Law written by Martin Dixon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cases & Materials on International Law is a topical and engaging companion for study, offering broad coverage on public international law and placing disputes directly within the context of contemporary debate. The book contains the essential cases and materials that students need in order to fully understand and analyse the international legal system, drawing on a truly global range of jurisdictions and sources. Expert author commentary and notes place selected extracts within the wider legal framework and explain the complexities of the principles of law to students. The sixth edition includes expanded discussion of developing areas, including UN resolutions on climate change and international environmental law, new material from the International Law Commission, and coverage of major events, such as the annexation of Crimea, the legal context for Scottish independence and the UK's exit from the European Union, and the United Nations Security Council's Resolution on Malaysia Airlines MH17.
Author : Petra Minnerop
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198835094
Total Pages : 993 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book International Development Law written by Petra Minnerop and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together articles on international development law from the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, the definitive reference work on international law. It provides an invaluable resource for scholars, students, and practitioners of international development law, giving an accessible, thorough overview of all aspects of the field. Each article contains cross-references to related articles, and includes a carefully selected bibliography of the most important writings and primary materials as a guide to further reading. The Encyclopedia can be used by a wide range of readers. Experienced scholars and practitioners will find a wealth of information on areas that they do not already know well as well as in-depth treatments on every aspect of their specialist topics. Articles can also be set as readings for students on taught courses.
Author : Judith M. Brown
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349254991
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Hong Kong’s Transitions, 1842–1997 written by Judith M. Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-06-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reversion of Hong Kong to China on 1 July 1997 is an event of major historical significance. This volume examines this dramatic event from a long-term perspective against the background of earlier turning points in Hong Kong's political, economic and social history. It also explores Hong Kong's links with China and Britain in this troubled last decade of colonial rule, and offers a basis for assessing the territory's possible future as a part of the Chinese state.
Author : C.X. George Wei
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135119996
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Macao - The Formation of a Global City written by C.X. George Wei and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macao, the former Portuguese colony in southeast China, has a long and very interesting history of cultural interaction between China and the West. Held by the Portuguese from the 1550s until its return to China in 1999, Macao was up to the emergence of Hong Kong in the later nineteenth century the principal point of entry into China for all Westerners - Dutch, British and others, as well as Portuguese. The relatively relaxed nature of Portuguese colonial rule, intermarriage, the mixing of Chinese and Western cultures, and the fact that Macao served as a safe haven for many Chinese reformers at odds with the Chinese authorities, including Sun Yat-sen, all combined to make Macao a very different and special place. This book explores how Macao was formed over the centuries. It puts forward substantial new research findings and new thinking, and covers a wide range of issues. It is a companion volume to Macao - Cultural Interaction and Literary Representations.
Author : Asif H Qureshi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 150991532X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Contextualising International Law in Northeast Asia written by Asif H Qureshi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northeast Asia is one of the most important regions of the world both economically and in terms of its historical heritage. The region poses significant challenges for international law whilst international law can unleash cooperative endeavours which can place the region in a formidable location in the new multi-polar world order. This work sets out a contextual regional approach to international law focusing on the relations as between China, South Korea and Japan. In particular the author deliberates on the historical development of international law in the region, the relationship of international law with the Chinese, Korean and Japanese legal systems; historical disputes as between the three States; and the respective practices in the sphere of monetary and trade relations. This work will be of interest to international law scholars, practitioners and policy makers.
Author : C. L. Lim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108838758
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Treaty for a Lost City written by C. L. Lim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses declassified archival records to analyse the legal and contemporary circumstances surrounding the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration.
Author : Carmen Amado Mendes
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888139002
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Portugal, China and the Macau Negotiations, 1986-1999 written by Carmen Amado Mendes and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 20, 1999, the city of Macau became a Special Administrative Region of China after nearly four hundred and fifty years of Portuguese administration. Drawing extensively on Portuguese and other sources and on interviews with key participants, this book examines the strategies and policies adopted by the Portuguese government during the negotiations. The study sets these events within the larger context of Portugal's retreat from empire, the British experience with Hong Kong, and changing social and political conditions within Macau. A weak player on the international stage, Portugal was still able to obtain concessions during the negotiations, notably in the timing of the retrocession and continuing Portuguese nationality arrangements for some Macau citizens. Yet the tendency of Portuguese leaders to use the Macau question as a tool in their domestic political agendas hampered their ability to develop an effective strategy and left China with the freedom to control the process of negotiation.
Author : Roda Mushkat
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622094279
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)
Download or read book One Country, Two International Legal Personalities written by Roda Mushkat and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Once A Hero, his latest collection of essays, Lam describes the decline of Hong Kong cinema since 1997 and gives an eyewitness account of its attempt to reinvent itself.
Author : Kevin YL Tan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509940197
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Constitutional Foundings in Northeast Asia written by Kevin YL Tan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book in the Constitutionalism in Asia series considers the idea of origins, and of change and continuity in terms of 'constitution-making', which is an on-going process in the Northeast Asian states. The book examines the drafting, nature, core values, and roles of the first modern constitutions during the founding of the 8 modern states/territories in Northeast Asia: China (1949), Taiwan (1947), Hong Kong SAR (1997), Macau SAR (1999), Japan (1889), North Korea (1948 and 1972), South Korea (1948), and Mongolia (1924). The collection provides: - an exploratory description of the process and substantive inputs in the making of the first constitutions of these nations/territories; - analysis of the internal and external (including intra-regional) forces surrounding the making of these constitutions; and - theoretical construction of models to conceptualise the nature and role of the first constitutions (including constituent documents) in the founding of the modern nation-states/territories and their subsequent impact on state-building in the region.
Author : Zhaodong Wang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110706652
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Sino-British Negotiations and the Search for a Post-War Settlement, 1942–1949 written by Zhaodong Wang and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a systematic study of the China-Britain relationship during the 1942–1949 period with a particular focus on the two countries’ discussions over both the 1943 Sino-British treaty and the discarded Sino-British commercial treaty, the future of Hong Kong, and the political status of Tibet. These were dominated by two underlying themes: the elimination of the British imperialist position in China and the establishment of an equal and reciprocal bilateral relationship. The negotiations started promisingly in 1942–1943, but, by 1949, had failed to reach a satisfactory settlement. Behind the failure lay a complex set of domestic considerations and external factors, including the powerful infl uence of the United States. Even after seven decades, the failure still has a contemporary impact. Recent Sino-British disputes over the Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement and incessant Indo-Chinese confl icts and skirmishes over their unsettled borders all attest to the enduring legacy of the years 1942–1949 as setting the scene for subsequent Sino-British and Sino-Indian relations. From this perspective, the history has never left us.
Author : Malcolm Merry
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888528327
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (885 download)
Download or read book The Unruly New Territories written by Malcolm Merry and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the nineteenth century a slice of imperial China was abruptly incorporated into the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. It became known as the New Territories. The people of this remote and traditional corner of the Ching empire were not consulted about the annexation, initially resisted and long resented it. To placate them, the incoming authorities promised that little would alter and that their customs would be respected. The promise would not be fully kept but it became the source of the preservation of Chinese customary law in respect of rural land and the justification for privileges afforded to indigenous inhabitants. Their tenacious assertion of those rights and aversion to authority is detectible throughout the twentieth century and into the era of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; it permeates almost every aspect of policy and law relating to rural land. The Unruly New Territories is an account of the annexed area and of its special place in Hong Kong history and law. It recounts the customs and privileges, how they preserved a China that was elsewhere disappearing and how they gave—and, despite enormous changes, continue to give—leverage to indigenous representatives in dealings with government as well as handsome profits to rural landowners. ‘This fascinating and impressive book is a must-read for all who want to know more about the New Territories. Malcolm Merry traces, with his usual clarity and insight, its unique land history that blends, not always harmoniously, Chinese custom with the advance of common law and this area’s dramatic development.’ —Sarah Nield, University of Southampton ‘The Unruly New Territories covers various aspects of land law and custom in the New Territories and the history of this region in a thoughtful and provocative combined thesis. A must-read for anyone studying the laws and customs affecting land in rural Hong Kong and interested in the history of the New Territories.’ —Steven Gallagher, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Author : Jung-fang Tsai
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231079334
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (793 download)
Download or read book Hong Kong in Chinese History written by Jung-fang Tsai and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical study traces unrest and social transformation in Hong Kong and explores how merchants, the intelligentsia and labourers played important roles in China's social and political movements from the mid-19th century until the first years of the Chinese Republic.
