Asian Studies
Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes
The Capitalist Unconscious
Li Chen
Hyun Ok Park
Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics
“Li Chen sets a new standard for any future
From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea
“A stunningly original and significant contribution
study on this topic.”
to a field that seems mired in a Cold War long
—Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University
passed. Not only does Park seek to untie the knotted problem of the two Koreas, but she also persuasively
Focusing on the role of law in Sino-Western encounters, Li Chen brings fresh insight to the legal disputes, cultural borrowings, and heated negotiations over imperial interests and sovereignty that profoundly shaped Sino-Western conduct in the century before 1843. In a narrative populated with Manchu governors, Dutch merchants, American missionaries, Russian Sinologists, French philosophers, Portuguese settlers, and British politicians, he investigates the forces that created, contested, and normalized imperial ideology, national sovereignty, cultural tradition, and international order. Li Chen
is assistant professor at the University of Toronto
and founding president of the International Society for
provides an exemplary guide to how best unveil the interacting entanglements of history and the contemporary moment.” —Harry Harootunian, Columbia University
The unification of North and South Korea is considered an unresolved matter for the global order, but this book argues capital has already unified Korea in a transnational form. As Hyun Ok Park demonstrates, rather than territorial integration and family union, the capitalist unconscious drives the current unification, imagining the capitalist integration of the Korean peninsula and diaspora as a new democratic moment. Hyun Ok Park
teaches sociology at York University. She
Chinese Law and History. He is a coediter of Chinese Law:
is also the author of Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social
Knowledge, Practice and Transformation, 1530s–1950s.
Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria.
$60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-17374-2 $59.99 / £41.50 e-book 978-0-231-54021-6 J a n u a r y 400 pages / 18 b&w illustrations C h i n e s e H i s to r y / E u r o p e a n H i s to r y S t u d i e s o f t h e W e at h e r h e a d E a s t A s i a n I n s t i t u t e ,
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