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100			_a Wang, Anke _956829
245			_aAbolitionist parallels: International law and domestic servitude in South China (1900–1940)
260			_aModern Asian Studies
300			_a59(1), Jan, 2025: p.122-142
520			_aThis article examines the intertwined processes between China’s making of anti-slavery laws and the evolution of international legislation against slavery in the early twentieth century. By tracing international interventions into domestic servitude issues in Chinese communities both in China and Southeast Asia, the article analyses how the international legal regime was absorbed into the domestic laws of late Qing and Republican China. Drawing on two threads of scholarly discussion—namely, the histories of humanitarian internationalism and modern China’s legal reform—this article argues that late Qing and Republican jurists intentionally maintained an ambiguous definition of domestic servitude. This ambiguity served to affirm the humanitarian governance of the modern state while simultaneously preserving social customs, in defiance of international law.- Reproduced https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/abolitionist-parallels-international-law-and-domestic-servitude-in-south-china-19001940/2E360B0D9BC3356B0D3E6B7387394DA6
650			_a• Slavery, Humanitarian internationalism, International law, Legal reform, Modern China. _956830
773			_aModern Asian Studies
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