Legal Controversies & State-Building in Late 19th Century East Asia

Takahiro Yamamoto, University of Heidelberg: ‘Connecting Japan and the Pacific: Benjamin Pease, Thomas Glover, and the Bonin Islands, 1871-1876’

Jonathan Chappell, London School of Economics: ‘Undeclared Wars, Paper Blockades and Civilian Spies: The International Laws of War in Treaty Port China, 1884-1895’