Associate Professor
cassel@umich.eduOffice Information:
313 Weiser Hall
phone: 734-936-3979
Asia; Law & Society; Nations & Nationalism; Politics & Power; History
Education/Degree:
PhD, Harvard University, 2006
Current Courses
ASIAN 354-001
War, Rebellion and Revolution in China Through Two Centuries
ASIAN 539-001
Critical Readings in Documentary Chinese
CCS 539-001
Critical Readings in Documentary Chinese
HISTORY 354-001
War, Rebellion and Revolution in China Through Two Centuries
HISTORY 539-001
Critical Readings in Documentary Chinese
HISTORY 594-008
Topics in History
Highlighted Work and Publications
Grounds of Judgment: Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan
Pär Kristoffer Cassel
Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, the nineteenth century encounter between East Asia and the Western world has been narrated as a legal encounter. Commercial treaties--negotiated by diplomats and focused on trade--framed the relationships among Tokugawa-Meiji Japan, Qing China, Choson Korea, and Western countries including Britain, France, and the United States. These treaties created a new legal order, very different than the colonial relationships that the West forged with other parts of the globe, which developed in dialogue with local precedents, local understandings of power, and... See More