Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: Legal Orientalism 1
4. CHAPTER TWO: Making Legal and Unlegal Subjects in History 30
5. CHAPTER THREE: Telling Stories about Corporations and Kinship 60
6. CHAPTER FOUR: Canton Is Not Boston 108
7. CHAPTER FIVE: The District of China Is Not the District of Columbia 152
8. CHAPTER SIX: Epilogue: Colonialism without Colonizers 198
9. Notes 237
10. Comment on Chinese Sources 321
11. Acknowledgments 323
12. Index 327