The Discipline of International Law in Republican China and Contemporary Taiwan

This article examines the evolution of international law as a professional and intellectual discipline in the Republic of China (ROC), which has governed Mainland China (1912-1949) and post-1949 Taiwan. The ROC’s centennial development fundamentally shaped modern China’s course of foreign relations...

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Main Author: HSIEH, Pasha L.
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sol_research-32452016-05-12T06:08:27Z The Discipline of International Law in Republican China and Contemporary Taiwan HSIEH, Pasha L. This article examines the evolution of international law as a professional and intellectual discipline in the Republic of China (ROC), which has governed Mainland China (1912-1949) and post-1949 Taiwan. The ROC’s centennial development fundamentally shaped modern China’s course of foreign relations and postwar global governance. The article argues that statism, pragmatism and idealism define the major features of the ROC’s approach to international law. These characteristics transformed the law of nations into universally valid normative claims and prompted modern China’s intellectual focus on the civilized nation concept. First, the article analyzes the professionalization of the discipline of international law. It offers insight into the cultivation of China’s first-generation international lawyers in the Foreign Ministry, international law societies and the Shanghai Mixed Court. Second, it explores the ROC’s approach of assertive legalism in applying international law to advance diplomatic objectives. The nation’s strategic engagement with unequal treaties, the League of Nations, and the United Nations contributed to its Grotian moment. The assertion of legal claims in judicial proceedings and Taiwan’s international standing further reinforced the dynamic dimension of the discipline. Therefore, this article provides a valuable case study of twentieth century international lawmaking in East Asia. 2015-03-01T08:00:00Z text https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1293 http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_globalstudies/vol14/iss1/7/ Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University China Taiwan International Law Nationalist Government Unequal Treaties International Law
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Singapore
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topic China
Taiwan
International Law
Nationalist Government
Unequal Treaties
International Law
spellingShingle China
Taiwan
International Law
Nationalist Government
Unequal Treaties
International Law
HSIEH, Pasha L.
The Discipline of International Law in Republican China and Contemporary Taiwan
description This article examines the evolution of international law as a professional and intellectual discipline in the Republic of China (ROC), which has governed Mainland China (1912-1949) and post-1949 Taiwan. The ROC’s centennial development fundamentally shaped modern China’s course of foreign relations and postwar global governance. The article argues that statism, pragmatism and idealism define the major features of the ROC’s approach to international law. These characteristics transformed the law of nations into universally valid normative claims and prompted modern China’s intellectual focus on the civilized nation concept. First, the article analyzes the professionalization of the discipline of international law. It offers insight into the cultivation of China’s first-generation international lawyers in the Foreign Ministry, international law societies and the Shanghai Mixed Court. Second, it explores the ROC’s approach of assertive legalism in applying international law to advance diplomatic objectives. The nation’s strategic engagement with unequal treaties, the League of Nations, and the United Nations contributed to its Grotian moment. The assertion of legal claims in judicial proceedings and Taiwan’s international standing further reinforced the dynamic dimension of the discipline. Therefore, this article provides a valuable case study of twentieth century international lawmaking in East Asia.
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author HSIEH, Pasha L.
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title The Discipline of International Law in Republican China and Contemporary Taiwan
title_short The Discipline of International Law in Republican China and Contemporary Taiwan
title_full The Discipline of International Law in Republican China and Contemporary Taiwan
title_fullStr The Discipline of International Law in Republican China and Contemporary Taiwan
title_full_unstemmed The Discipline of International Law in Republican China and Contemporary Taiwan
title_sort discipline of international law in republican china and contemporary taiwan
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2015
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1293
http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_globalstudies/vol14/iss1/7/
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