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- Title: Justice by Gunboat
- Author : Douglas Clark
- Release Date : January 01, 2018
- Genre: Asia,Books,History,Professional & Technical,Law,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 19242 KB
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War, riots, rebellion, sedition, corruption, assassinations, murder, infidelity, and
even a failed hanging. These were just some of the many challenges faced by
the British and American courts that operated in China, Japan and Korea for
close to a 100 years. Established in the mid 19th Century under treaties signed
when foreign gunboats forced all three countries to open to the outside world,
the foreign courts had the sole right to try their own nationals to the exclusion
of local courts. This book unveils the history of this system of extraterritoriality.
Based on original research through archives and hundreds of trial transcripts,
Justice by Gunboat tells not only the story of the courts and how China and Ja-
pan reacted to them but also of the fascinating lives of the judges, lawyers and
parties before the courts.
Extraterritoriality had a huge impact on the modern development of both
China and Japan. For China, the period is now called the “Century of Humilia-
tion”; for Japan the same era is celebrated. If you want to understand how both
countries view the world - and each other - this book is a must read.
A pathbreaking study of an important but long neglected topic, this book is
a fascinating read and invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in law,
empire and history in modern East Asia.
—Dani Botsman, Professor of History, Yale University,
Author of Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan
A vital read. Here we find a century of foreign judges, lawyers and consuls
attempting to control a city that attracted a legion of adventurers, criminals
and sharks like no other in history. Gunboat Justice reveals the intersection of
Shanghai’s formal administration and its dark underbelly. The most important
book on Shanghai’s history for several decades.
—Paul French, author of Midnight in Peking,
winner of the Edgar Allan Poe award for best Fact Crime writing
For the first time, we now have a comprehensive, well-informed and humane
account of the people and procedures in the British and American courts of
East Asia. Doug Clark’s book brings that world to life, and restores it to its
place in our histories of the era of the ‘unequal treaties’.
—Robert Bickers, author of Empire Made Me and The Scramble for China 1832-1914