Associate Professor
cassel@umich.eduOffice Information:
313 Weiser Hall
phone: 734.647.4868
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Asia; Law & Society; Nations & Nationalism; Politics & Power; History
Education/Degree:
PhD, Harvard University, 2006Current Courses
ASIAN 354-001
Modern China
HISTORY 354-001
Modern China
HISTORY 594-002
Topics in History
INTLRGN 600-001
International and Regional Studies Graduate Colloquium
Highlighted Work and Publications
Grounds of Judgment: Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan
Pär Kristoffer Cassel
Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, the nineteenth century encounter between East Asia and the Western world has been narrated as a legal encounter. Commercial treaties--negotiated by diplomats and focused on trade--framed the relationships among Tokugawa-Meiji Japan, Qing China, Choson Korea, and Western countries including Britain, France, and the United States. These treaties created a new legal order, very different than the colonial relationships that the West forged with other parts of the globe, which developed in dialogue with local precedents, local understandings of power, and... See More