Legal Orientalism

Teemu Ruskola is Professor of Law at Emory University.

出版者:Harvard University Press

作者:Teemu Ruskola

页数:352

出版时间:2013-6-3

价格:USD 42.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780674073067

图书标签:法律史法学海外中国研究东方主义法律史与法律文化中国英文原版清代

Since the Cold War ended, China has become a global symbol of disregard for human rights, while the United States has positioned itself as the world's chief exporter of the rule of law. How did lawlessness become an axiom about Chineseness rather than a fact needing to be verified empirically, and how did the United States assume the mantle of law's universal appeal? In a series of wide-ranging inquiries, Teemu Ruskola investigates the history of "legal Orientalism": a set of globally circulating narratives about what law is and who has it. For example, why is China said not to have a history of corporate law, as a way of explaining its "failure" to develop capitalism on its own? Ruskola shows how a European tradition of philosophical prejudices about Chinese law developed into a distinctively American ideology of empire, influential to this day. The first Sino-U.S. treaty in 1844 authorized the extraterritorial application of American law in a putatively lawless China. A kind of legal imperialism, this practice long predated U.S. territorial colonialism after the Spanish-American War in 1898, and found its fullest expression in an American district court's jurisdiction over the "District of China. " With urgent contemporary implications, legal Orientalism lives on in the enduring damage wrought on the U.S. Constitution by late nineteenth-century anti-Chinese immigration laws, and in the self-Orientalizing reforms of Chinese law today. In the global politics of trade and human rights, legal Orientalism continues to shape modern subjectivities, institutions, and geopolitics in powerful and unacknowledged ways.

读后感

爱德华•萨义德在《东方主义》的开篇中谈到，东方主义是 “文化和政治的现实”，并且是一种被建构的现实，将西方人的想象投射到关于东方的话语之中。既然是话语，就有着一张普罗透斯的脸，文学的、历史的或是政治的，当然也可能是以法律的形式存在。美国埃默里大学的络德睦(T...  

[Copyright 2016 mozartera. Please indicate the source when reposting.] "Legal Orientalism" is an ambitious legal and historic inquiry from the author Teemu Ruskola, who investigates the formation of Orientalism from a postcolonial legal perspective, i.e. ...

How the West denied China's law Legal Orientalism: China, the US and Modern Law by Teemu Ruskola By Dinesh Sharma http://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-01-270913.html 简单地说，所谓东方没有法律的说法是一种文化沙文和文化种族歧视。由于近代化对中国的影响...  

[Copyright 2016 mozartera. Please indicate the source when reposting.] "Legal Orientalism" is an ambitious legal and historic inquiry from the author Teemu Ruskola, who investigates the formation of Orientalism from a postcolonial legal perspective, i.e. ...

爱德华•萨义德在《东方主义》的开篇中谈到，东方主义是 “文化和政治的现实”，并且是一种被建构的现实，将西方人的想象投射到关于东方的话语之中。既然是话语，就有着一张普罗透斯的脸，文学的、历史的或是政治的，当然也可能是以法律的形式存在。美国埃默里大学的络德睦(T...  

用户评价

顾盛在华期间和美国政府之间的通信比较有意思，加一星。总体而言，作者对中国史的了解非常有限，以至于提出了很多好问题，但是根本无力做出解释，很多结论过于想当然了；作者对领事法院和会审公廨的认知又很肤浅…总之，没有金刚钻就别揽这瓷器活

中国法律是txt而非exe，真是这样吗？举个栗子，和飞行员朋友聊天，问他们aviation law怎么来的，丫说直接照抄美加法律然后把相关数据中国特色一下，蛤蛤——作者问题意识不错，认知与阐释上还有待提高，跨专业这玩意要么极好要么特糟，不大会产生平庸的作品

An ambitious yet incredibly illuminating book from a postcolonial legal perspective. Recommended to any foreigner who finds himself stuck in a stereotypical view of China and Chinese law.

中国法律是txt而非exe，真是这样吗？举个栗子，和飞行员朋友聊天，问他们aviation law怎么来的，丫说直接照抄美加法律然后把相关数据中国特色一下，蛤蛤——作者问题意识不错，认知与阐释上还有待提高，跨专业这玩意要么极好要么特糟，不大会产生平庸的作品

westernization=self-orientalization ?