1 option
Extradition and empire : sovereignty and subjecthood in Hong Kong / Ivan Lee, National University of Singapore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Ivan (Lawyer), author.
- Series:
- Studies in legal history.
- Studies in legal history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Extradition--China--Hong Kong--History.
- Extradition.
- Sovereignty.
- Hong Kong (China)--Politics and government--History.
- Hong Kong (China).
- Great Britain--Colonies--China--Hong Kong.
- Great Britain.
- Hong Kong (China)--History--Transfer of Sovereignty from Great Britain, 1997.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 247 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- In the first book-length study of the imperial history of extradition in Hong Kong, Ivan Lee shows how British judges, lawyers, and officials navigated the nature of extradition, debated its legalities, and distinguished it over time from other modalities of criminal jurisdiction - including deportation, rendition, and trial and punishment under territorial and extraterritorial laws. These complex debates were rooted in the contested legal status of Chinese subjects under the Opium War treaties of 1842-43. They also intersected wider shifts and tensions in British ideas of territorial sovereignty, criminal justice and procedure, and the legal rights and liabilities of British subjects and alien persons in British territory. By the 1870s, a new area of imperial law emerged as Britain incorporated a frontier colony into an increasingly territorial and legally homogenous empire. This important perspective revises our understanding of the legal origins of colonial Hong Kong and British imperialism in China.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Dimensions of Extradition and Empire
- Improvising Sovereignty
- Domesticating Mobility
- Navigating Disorder
- Rationalising Reciprocity
- Founding Alsatia
- Conclusion : Legacies of Extradition.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Sep 2025).
- ISBN:
- 1-009-35695-X
- 1-009-35697-6
- 1-009-35696-8
- OCLC:
- 1526229957
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.