Western International Law and the Collapse of Imperial China: Continuing Controversy over the “Century of Humiliation”

A workshop discussion with Professor Anthony Carty, Sir Y K Pao Chair in Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong (China).

Abstract

Professor Carty, with the collaboration of two doctoral students, Bijun Xu and Xiaoshi Zhang, will present preliminary results from three research projects currently underway. The topics covered will broadly addressed, in a critical perspective, international legal issues pertaining to the history of the relations between China and the West since the 19th century.

The goal of the discussion is to interrogate the orthodoxy of the historiography in international law and to analyze the proper roles and places respectively occupied by the West and Asia, in particular China, within it.

Sponsored by the Canada Research Chair in the Law of Human Rights and Legal Pluralism & the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.