Font Size: a A A

Input Of The International Law And Modernization Of The Accredited Diplomatic Envoy System In The Late Qing Dynasty

Posted on:2009-07-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360245462970Subject:Special History
Abstract/Summary:PDF Full Text Request
International law is the production of modern western capitalism development, it is the entity of statutory rules, criterion and principle which having international personality as well as other between sovereign states. In 1648, The Peace Treaty of Westphalia made the permanent embassy's to be accustomed to managing to establish, in Europe it started from early the fifteen century, originated from Italy. Vienna Convention compiled the code that can have compiled the diplomatic envoy grade and seating arrangement in 1815, the messenger is dispatched being sent to work abroad the envoy becomes the common sovereign state diplomacy example. Diplomacy sends an envoy in exchange in requiring that the west builds modern times in opening the Chinese entrance door several time peacefully, after system is declined, west big powers relies on international law using brute force wedge to have become a member of China. Until but insisting on tradition land under heaven mental consciousness in 1861, since Qing Dynasty is obstinate, China still discriminates against fundamental international law diplomacy principle attitude.Painful getting through two times of Opium War, the enlightened official of Qing dynasty knew the ponderance that way lags behind to tradition diplomacy step by step, moved to the self-improvement actively from passive instinct reaction. They experienced and observed the world modernized tidal current with one kind of sagacious attitude, the entering exploring the foreign policy dealing with concrete matters relating to work and introducing the Western learning, international law in large scale became important content among them because of that. After accepting theory such as relative state sovereignty of international law equality and diplomacy principle the modern times, the Qing government dispatched the permanent envoy ultimately to the west. On the modern Sino-foreign relation history, building-up of the late Qing Dynasty diplomatic envoy system is significant. It marked the pace of China's modernization has taken a substantial step.While, the early diplomatic envoy system was imperfect in the selection of envoys, accompanying personnel, official rank, tenure and personnel organization such areas. That the first be sent on a diplomatic mission and permanent foreign country, be sent to work abroad having extremely little international law knowledge to inspect with the envoy was row of to be very careful. The envoy under the situation of there being no precedent to imitate , they draw principle according to the international law to make the diplomatic envoy system perfect step by step. The envoy had very big limitation in the cognition to international law, but they applied the international law knowledge in high limit field to defend Chinese rights, made modern Chinese diplomacy had a little of action. The envoy in majority are tradition intellectuals, as a group going globe wide comparatively early, in touching with west society, they kept abrest of times step, the congnition of international law rose extremely all-round from single, reason perceptual rise extremely reason, displayed higher overall know-how, thus made the late Qing Dynasty China transform to the modern times having added the new key factor.The artile analyse detailedly the late Qing Dynasty diplomatic envoy system how to be built, developed and to be perfect according to international law diplomacy principle, through the process of understanding the diplomatic norms by analysing fellow countrymen to international law to seek the rule that late Qing Dynasty early modernized and Chinese diplomacy stepped to the world.
Keywords/Search Tags:international law, input, the Late Qing Dynasty diplomatic envoy system, modernization
PDF Full Text Request
Related items