Law Across Imperial Borders: British Consuls and Colonial Connections on Chinas Western Frontiers, 1880-1943

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Law across imperial borders offers new perspectives on the complex legal connections between Britains presence in Western China in the western frontier regions of Yunnan and Xinjiang, and the British colonies of Burma and India. Bringing together a transnational methodology with a social-legal focus, it demonstrates how inter-Asian mobility across frontiers shaped British authority in contested frontier regions of China. It examines the role of a range of actors who helped create, constitute and contest legal practice on the frontierincluding consuls, indigenous elites and cultural mediators. The book will be of interest to historians of China, the British Empire in Asia and legal history.

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Emily Whewell is a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt