Book contents
- International Law and the Cold War
- International Law and the Cold War
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- About the Editors
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Reading and Unreading a Historiography of Hiatus
- Part I The Anti-linear Cold War
- Part II The Generative/Productive Cold War
- Part III The Parochial/Plural Cold War
- 16 The Cold War in Soviet International Legal Discourse
- 17 The Dao of Mao: Sinocentric Socialism and the Politics of International Legal Theory
- 18 ‘The Dust of Empire’: the Dialectic of Self-Determination and Re-colonisation in the First Phase of the Cold War
- 19 The ‘Bihar Famine’ and the Authorisation of the Green Revolution in India: Developmental Futures and Disaster Imaginaries
- 20 Pakistan’s Cold War(s) and International Law
- 21 International Law, Cold War Juridical Theatre and the Making of the Suez Crisis
- 22 To Seek with Beauty to Set the World Right: Cold War International Law and the Radical ‘Imaginative Geography’ of Pan-Africanism
- 23 John Le Carré, International Law and the Cold War
- 24 Postcolonial Hauntings and Cold War Continuities: Congolese Sovereignty and the Murder of Patrice Lumumba
- 25 End Times in the Antipodes: Propaganda and Critique in On the Beach
- References to Cold War Volume
- Index
17 - The Dao of Mao: Sinocentric Socialism and the Politics of International Legal Theory
from Part III - The Parochial/Plural Cold War
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2019
- International Law and the Cold War
- International Law and the Cold War
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- About the Editors
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Reading and Unreading a Historiography of Hiatus
- Part I The Anti-linear Cold War
- Part II The Generative/Productive Cold War
- Part III The Parochial/Plural Cold War
- 16 The Cold War in Soviet International Legal Discourse
- 17 The Dao of Mao: Sinocentric Socialism and the Politics of International Legal Theory
- 18 ‘The Dust of Empire’: the Dialectic of Self-Determination and Re-colonisation in the First Phase of the Cold War
- 19 The ‘Bihar Famine’ and the Authorisation of the Green Revolution in India: Developmental Futures and Disaster Imaginaries
- 20 Pakistan’s Cold War(s) and International Law
- 21 International Law, Cold War Juridical Theatre and the Making of the Suez Crisis
- 22 To Seek with Beauty to Set the World Right: Cold War International Law and the Radical ‘Imaginative Geography’ of Pan-Africanism
- 23 John Le Carré, International Law and the Cold War
- 24 Postcolonial Hauntings and Cold War Continuities: Congolese Sovereignty and the Murder of Patrice Lumumba
- 25 End Times in the Antipodes: Propaganda and Critique in On the Beach
- References to Cold War Volume
- Index
Summary
The fall of the Qing dynasty was followed by the successive creation of two republics: the Republic of China (‘ROC’), established in 1912 and ultimately dominated by the Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-shek, and the People’s Republic of China (‘PRC’), established in 1949 by the Chinese Communist Party (‘CCP’) headed by Mao Zedong. Treatment of the two Chinas in the international arena could hardly have been more different. Never exercising more than nominal control over the entirety of the territory it claimed, the ROC was riven by an endless succession of warlords, an even greater number of Westerners holding onto semi-colonial privileges they claimed to have inherited from the Qing, a civil war between Nationalists and Communists, and a brutal occupation by Japan. Nevertheless, while there was no shortage of people in China rejecting the claims of the Nationalist Government, internationally no one doubted its legal existence, even when contradicted by facts.
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- International Law and the Cold War , pp. 376 - 396Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019