After the cold war, how did china become a global symbol of disregard for human rights, while the u. Since the cold war ended, china has become a global symbol of disregard. In this new book, teemu ruskola undertakes a series of wideranging investigations in order to analyze the history of legal orientalism. Legal orientalism by teemu ruskola nook book ebook. On the one hand, it is a historical analysis that illuminates important aspects of nineteenth. Legal orientalism shows a scholarly mind for detail, combined with a rare degree of expansiveness and reach. Legal orientalism kindle edition by ruskola, teemu. China, the united states, and modern law, by teemu ruskola. On the other, this book is urgently contemporary, speaking to interest in legal studies and the social sciences about the place of law and legal reform in presentday china. Mae ngai, columbia university ruskola has written a work that stretches across time, place and legal jurisdiction. His book makes an important contribution to multiple fields. Read legal orientalism by teemu ruskola available from rakuten kobo.
Lee legal orientalism por teemu ruskola disponible en rakuten kobo. Teemu ruskola has written a provocative book on legal orientalism, a subject that he conceptualizes and explores with originality and sophistication. China, the united states, and modern law teemu ruskola since the cold war ended, china has become a global symbol of disregard for human rights, while the united states has positioned itself as the worlds chief exporter of the rule of law. Teemu ruskola investigates globally circulating narratives about what law is and who has it, and shows how legal orientalism developed into a distinctly american ideology of empire. Legal orientalism ebook by teemu ruskola rakuten kobo. Mae ngai, lung family professor of asian american studies and professor of history, columbia university ruskola has written a work that stretches across time, place and legal jurisdiction. For example, why is china said not to have a history of corporate law, as a way of explaining its failure to develop capitalism on its own.
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