How Long to Read Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes

How Long Does it Take to Read Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 40 minutes to read Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes by Li Chen

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

How did American schoolchildren, French philosophers, Russian Sinologists, Dutch merchants, and British lawyers imagine China and Chinese law? What happened when agents of presumably dominant Western empires had to endure the humiliations and anxieties of maintaining a profitable but precarious relationship with China? In Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes, Li Chen provides a richly textured analysis of these related issues and their intersection with law, culture, and politics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Using a wide array of sources, Chen's study focuses on the power dynamics of Sino-Western relations during the formative century before the First Opium War (1839-1842). He highlights the centrality of law to modern imperial ideology and politics and brings new insight to the origins of comparative Chinese law in the West, the First Opium War, and foreign extraterritoriality in China. The shifting balance of economic and political power formed and transformed knowledge of China and Chinese law in different contact zones. Chen argues that recovering the variegated and contradictory roles of Chinese law in Western "modernization" helps provincialize the subsequent Euro-Americentric discourse of global modernity. Chen draws attention to important yet underanalyzed sites in which imperial sovereignty, national identity, cultural tradition, or international law and order were defined and restructured. His valuable case studies show how constructed differences between societies were hardened into cultural or racial boundaries and then politicized to rationalize international conflicts and hierarchy.

How long is Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes?

Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes by Li Chen is 400 pages long, and a total of 100,000 words.

This makes it 135% the length of the average book. It also has 122% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 6 minutes to read Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes aloud.

What Reading Level is Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes?

Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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