Histories of International Law in China

Ignacio de la Rasilla holds the Han Depei Chair and is a One Thousand Talents Plan Professor at the Wuhan University Institute of International Law and the Wuhan Academy of International Law and Global Governance in China. He is the author or editor of eight books including The Cambridge Handbook of China and International Law (CUP 2024), International Law and History. Modern Interfaces (CUP 2021), Experiments in International Adjudication: Historical Accounts (CUP 2019), and In the Shadow of Vitoria: A History of International Law in Spain (1770-1953) (Brill-Nijhoff 2017).Jiangyu Wang is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law at the City University of Hong Kong's School of Law. His research and teaching focus on international economic law, public international law-particularly the intersection of international law and international relations-and comparative corporate and securities law. He has written and edited numerous books with esteemed international publishers, including China, India and the International Economic Order (CUP 2010), A Financial Centre for Two Empires: Hong Kong's Corporate, Securities and Tax Laws in its Transition From Britain to China (CUP 2014), and Company Law in China: Regulation of Business Organizations in a Socialist Market Economy (Edward Elgar 2015). He is currently Editor in Chief of the Asia Pacific Law Review and The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law.Congyan Cai is a professor of international law at the School of Law and an adjunct professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs at Fudan University, China. His books, as author or editor, include The UN Security Council and the Maintenance of Peace in a Changing World (CUP 2024), The Cambridge Handbook of China and International Law (CUP 2024) and The Rise of China and International Law: Taking Chinese Exceptionalism Seriously (OUP 2019).

• I. National Histories of International Law 1: Ignacio de la Rasilla, Jiangyu Wang: Histories of International Law in China: An Introduction 2: Ignacio de la Rasilla: China and the Turn to the National in the History of International Law II. Before and Beyond the Encounter: From Sino-Centric Isolation to Defensive Acculturation to International Law 3: Xinyu Huang: International Law in China: From Ancient Times to the Encounter 4: Inge Van Hulle: The Opium Wars, Extraterritoriality and International Drug Control 5: Frédéric Mégret & Wanshu Cong: China's Early Insertion in International Law Through the Protection of its Nationals Abroad: The Rock Springs Massacre, Mimetism and External State Building 6: Wensheng Qu & Li Wan: Lost and Found in Translation: How Europeanized International Law Became Universalized in Modern China 7: Masaharu Yanagihara: 'Unequal' Relations between China, Korea, and Japan: The 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki and Extradition Treaties 8: Luigi Nuzzo: A History of Italian Colonialism in China at the Turn of the 20th century 9: Mingqian Li: China, the Western Standard of Civilization and The Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907 III. International Law in China during the Republican Period 10: Ryan Martinez Mitchell: The Republic of China and the League of Nations 11: Pasha L. Hsieh: Professionalizing International Law in China During the Republican 12: Congyan Cai and Jie Liu: The Introduction of Soviet Theory of International Law to China: How Chinese International Lawyers Turned to Marxism 13: Christopher R. Rossi: In the Garden of Gethsemane: US-Sino Relations in the History of International Law during the Republican Period IV. International Law in China from the New China to the Opening-Up and Reform Process 14: Ignacio de la Rasilla: China's International Law and the 'Third World' during the Revolutionary Period (1949-1978) 15: Jiangyu Wang: China, the Cold War and International Law 16: Yifeng Chen: Towards a Principle-based International Order? the Origin of China's International Law Vocabulary in the 1950s-1960s 17: Lauri Mälksoo: Two Empires: China, Russia and the Soviet Union in the History of International Law 18: Straton Papagianneas: China and International Law during the Cultural Revolution and Its Aftermath 19: Eva Pils: Human Rights and Democracy for All under Heaven in China: Historical Engagements with Two Challenging Principles 20: Fen Ling: The Decolonization of Hong Kong: from the Unequal Treaties to the Basic Law 21: Jacques deLisle: China's Evolving (Re-)Engagement with International Law: From the "Reform and Opening to the Outside World" to Building "Foreign-Related Rule of Law" V. Chinese Historical Portraits in International Law 22: Yang Liu: Wang Chung-hui (1881-1958) 23: Maria Adele Carrai: Wellington Koo' (1888-1985) 24: Chao Wang and Guoqiang Luo: Zhou Gengsheng (1889-1971) 25: Zenghua Zhuo: Hsiang Che-chun (1892-1987) 26: Guoyong Zou and Li Jue: Li Haopei (1906-1997) 27: Yayezi Hao & Hong Yu: Ni Zhengyu (1906-2003) 28: Yongping Xiao & Jue Li: Han Depei (1911-2009) 29: Ken Yang: Wang Tieya (1913-2003) 30: Chao Wang: Qiu Shaoheng (1913-2009) 31: Ken Yang: Zhao Lihai (1916-1996) 32: Xiaobin Xu: Chen Ti-Chiang (1917-1983) 33: Ken Yang: Chinese Women in the Histories of International Law: Forgotten Names and Unfamiliar Paths