The Re-Shaping of the Far East

The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and international titles in a single resource. Its International Law component features works of some of the great legal theorists, including Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf, Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, Wheaton, among others. The materials in this archive are drawn from three world-class American law libraries: the Yale Law Library, the George Washington University Law Library, and the Columbia Law Library.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.+++++++++++++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: +++++++++++++++Yale Law LibraryLP3Y000580219050101The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926Contents.--I.Historical prologue. Six hundred miles up the Yangtsze. Hankow and the beyond. Some discourse on the Chinaman. On the Hankow-Peking railway. A hundred miles by cart. Kaifengfu, across the Yellow river and on to Peking. Trunk railways as political weapons. Peking under the foreign heel. The Chinese government and the Manchu court. The foreign services of China and their future. Three documents and sundry explanations. Tientsien, the Chihli viceroy and the present outlook. The disputed seas and the trade in contraband. Tsingtao and the Kiaochow territory. The colony of Kiaochow and the German programme. On the German railway from Tsingtao to the Shantung capital. Japan in war-time. Misrepresentations and misunderstandings. England and Japan. The heel of the Korean boot. From Fusan to Seoul by rail. Seoul, the pantomime capital. II. Non-Japanese interests in Korea. Japan in Korea. How Korea saw the first acts of war. The great war (a) To the fall of Port Arthur. The great war (b) From the fall of Port Arthur. The great mistakes of the war. Far Eastern opinion about the war. Russo-Chinese and Chino-Japanese relations. Franco-Belgian scheming in the Far East. The peculiar attitude of the United States. China arming. China, her religions and the missionary question. Conclusion and suggestions. Appendices.London; New York: Macmillan and Co., Limited; The Macmillan Company, 19052 v. fronts., plates, ports. 23 cmUnited KingdomUnited States