Prof. Ryan MITCHELL has published a new book, Recentering the World: China and the Transformation of International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

The book recovers a richly contextual, detailed history of Western-imposed legal structures in China, as well as engagements with international law by Chinese officials, jurists, and citizens. It presents a legal historical account beginning in the Late Qing era and extending to the present. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book is a valuable guide to China’s often conflicted role in international law, its reception and contention of concepts of sovereignty, property, obligation, and autonomy, and its gradual move from the ‘periphery’ to a shared spot at the ‘center’ of global legal order.

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