The Territorial Foundations of the Sovereign State in East Asia

European incursions into Asia created Asian awareness of territorial sovereignty by its very violation. The bilateral treaties that Japan and China signed with European and American states in the nineteenth century made explicit the centrality of territory in the modern state form, for these treatie...

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Main Author: Douglas R. Howland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg University Publishing 2018-12-01
Series:The Journal of Transcultural Studies
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Online Access:https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/transcultural/article/view/23789