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4 CJGG 1 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/chnjg4 and id is 1 raw text is: IThe Chins THE CHINESE JOURNAL o Global BRILL OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE 4 (2018) 1-21 Governance NIJHOFF brill.com/cjgg Rethinking International Legal Narrative Concerning Nineteenth Century China: Seeking China's Intellectual Connection to International Law Xiaoshi Zhang University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China shenyzhan9317@gmaitcom Abstract The standard of civilization is haunting international legal studies. The problem re- mains whether the non-Western traditions are legitimate sources for international governance. Although legal scholars sometimes approach international law from dif- ferent perspectives or from a particular experience, at last, they are still writing about one international law that are supposed to apply to all nation-states without differen- tiation. The future outlook of international law partly depends on if there are real and lasting Asian intellectual connections with international law and whether the Asian inspirations could find their expression in the existing international legal framework. After exploring the existing discourse on China's reception of international law in the nineteenth century, the paper suggests that Qing China's statesmen had a vision for co-existence of international legal system and the China oriented tributary system. Keywords China - history - nineteenth century - international law International lawyers make history by citing precedents and providing le- gitimacy for state behavior. In an age of universal rule of law, the word of * I would like to thank IGLP Harvard Law School, TAU Junior Scholars Workshop and Asian Society of International Law. XIAOSHI ZHANG, 2018 DOI 10.1163/23525207-12340029 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the prevailing CC-BY-NC license at the time of publication.

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