TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ruskola,Teemu
TI  - Legal Orientalism: China, the United States, and Modern Law
SN  - 9780674075764
AV  - K237 
U1  - 340/.11 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Law-China-Philosophy-History
KW  - Rule of law-China-History
KW  - Law-United States-Philosophy-History
KW  - Rule of law-United States-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Legal Orientalism -- 2. Making Legal and Unlegal Subjects in History -- 3. Telling Stories about Corporations and Kinship -- 4. Canton Is Not Boston -- 5. The District of China Is Not the District of Columbia -- 6. Epilogue: Colonialism without Colonizers -- Notes -- Comment on Chinese Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index
N2  - After the Cold War, how did China become a global symbol of disregard for human rights, while the U.S. positioned itself as the chief exporter of the rule of law? Teemu Ruskola investigates globally circulating narratives about what law is and who has it, and shows how "legal Orientalism" developed into a distinctly American ideology of empire
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