Book contents
- Transborder Fugitives, Extradition, and Political Crimes in Modern China
- Studies in Legal History
- Transborder Fugitives, Extradition, and Political Crimes in Modern China
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Origin of the “Political Offense Exception” in Sino-British Extradition
- 3 The Debate over Judicial Torture and the Failure of Extradition
- 4 Law and Justice at the Interstices of Empires
- 5 The Invention of the “Political Offender”
- 6 The Rise of Guoshifan and the Qing’s Penal Code Reform
- 7 Republican China’s Quest for Judicial Sovereignty and the Criminalization of Communism
- 8 Epilogue
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Studies in Legal History
8 - Epilogue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2025
Book contents
- Transborder Fugitives, Extradition, and Political Crimes in Modern China
- Studies in Legal History
- Transborder Fugitives, Extradition, and Political Crimes in Modern China
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Origin of the “Political Offense Exception” in Sino-British Extradition
- 3 The Debate over Judicial Torture and the Failure of Extradition
- 4 Law and Justice at the Interstices of Empires
- 5 The Invention of the “Political Offender”
- 6 The Rise of Guoshifan and the Qing’s Penal Code Reform
- 7 Republican China’s Quest for Judicial Sovereignty and the Criminalization of Communism
- 8 Epilogue
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Studies in Legal History
Summary
This final chapter offers reflections on the implications of the book’s findings. It argues that the history of modern China’s struggle with extradition sheds an important light on the changing concept of “political crimes” as well as the Nationalist and Communist governments’ approaches to political crimes in the 1930s and beyond.
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