Beyond Power Th

This thesis describes and analyses the history that Qing government took part in the Second Hague Peace Conference in1907. With a view of reviewing the relationship between the state power and the international regime, it tries to make a research in international politics on the development of modern Chinese diplomacy that was reflected in this history. In the background analysis of the event, it focuses on the change process of Qing government’s cognition toward such international regime as the Hague Peace Conference in the crisis caused by the Russo-Japanese War. In the process analysis of the event, it takes a view of Qing government’s preparation for attending the Conference, surveys how the Chinese delegation’s took part in the Conference and its controversies with the delegations of the Powers, makes a review of Qing government’s considerations toward the ratifying the conventions concluded in the Conference. In these ways, the thesis tries to depict the complicated relationship between the identifying regime of the Conference and the power regime of the Powers. By discussing the effects of the event, the thesis explains the idea that, with the experiences of the Hague Peace Conference, the Chinese diplomacy had a new choice, that is, to seek a way to transcend the power of the Powers through such international regime, by which the contrary unification was formed between the nationalism striking for national independence and the internationalism advocating to get along with the world society.