Associate Professor, Department of History
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Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History
Education/Degree:
PhD, Harvard University, 2006
Current Courses
ASIAN 205-001
Modern East Asia
HISTORY 205-001
Modern East Asia
INTLRGN 600-001
International and Regional Studies Graduate Colloquium
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...
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