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'Law across imperial borders significantly enriches our understanding of the British consular presence in frontier China, and it consequently will interest different audiences. Scholars of the British Empire will find a study of colonial law expanding beyond its borders. For historians of Chinese borderlands, Whewell clarifies and greatly nuances the vicissitudes of British interests and their institutional and political contexts.'
Eric Schluessel, American Journal of Legal History
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Note on transliteration
List of British representatives in Kashgar
List of Tengyue consuls
Introduction
Part I: The Burma-China frontier
1 Treaty-making and treaty-breaking: transfrontier salt and opium, 1904–11
2 On the move: people crossing the frontier, 1911–25
3 Consuls and Frontier Meetings, 1909–35
Part II: Through the mountains and across the desert: Xinjiang
4 Isolation and connection: law between semicolonial China and the Raj
5 Administering justice and mediating local custom
6 The British end game in Xinjiang: the decline of consular rights, 1917–39
Conclusion
Key terms
Select bibliography
Index