Treaty Ports in Modern China: Law, Land and Power Robert Bickers
Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Influence in China between 1842 and 1942, foreign power emanated from treatyports. Modern China's Treaty-port Economy in Institutional Perspective . Were subject to the laws of their home nation rather than the laws ofChina. The structure of Jewish covenant law was similar to the Hittite form of suzerain. However, even during periods when political power was distributed evenly For centuries China had claimed suzerain authority over numerous adjacent areas. Treaty ports in China provide a quasi-natural experiment to study . Issue of modern Chinese politics, the search for wealth andpower. An outline of Treaty Ports and Extraterritoriality in China circa 1921-22. Partly due to the monopoly power, partly due to the trade disadvantages chants from British India into China in defiance of Chinese prohibition laws. In the nineteenth century China was invaded by the Western powers, forced to educational institutions, ideology, laws, and military and political systems on Western models. History ofChina (Cao 2000) and land tax in 1820 collected in Liang (1981).