Teemu Ruskola
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 762043 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Teemu Ruskola |
| NOMBRES | Teemu |
| APELLIDO | Ruskola |
| FIRMA | RUSKOLA T |
| AFILIACIONES | Emory University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Making of the Chinese Working Class
Beyond Anti-Anti-Orientalism, or How Not to Study Chinese Law
When I embarked on the study of Chinese law, culture, and politics in the late 1980s, China was a poor, predominantly agrarian country. At the time, few observers would have predicted how soon and how fast its economy would take off. Given the unfortunate geopolitics of scholarship, getting anyone other than a handful of specialists to pay attention to Chinese law back then was an uphill battle. Today, the political and intellectual scenes have b…
People, Inc.? Law, Economic Enterprise, and the Development of Inequality in China
This Article tells the story of two Chinas and of different forms of public enterprise associated with each: state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in urban China and township-and-village enterprises (TVEs) in rural China. Historically SOEs have constituted the dominant form of socialist enterprise in China. However, China’s unprecedented economic growth began with the rise of rural industry in the 1980s, and the bulk of rural growth was generated by a n…
China in the Age of the World Picture
This chapter places China at the centre of international legal theory. More broadly, it explores how the multiethnic Qing Empire (1644–1911) became ‘China’, a sovereign nation-state in a world of other, formally equal nation-states. In framing the question, international law is approached as a foundational aspect of the political ontology of the modern world—one that depends on and sustains a particular metaphysical conception of the world, with …
Excerpt from Legal Orientalism
Excerpted from Teemu Ruskola, Legal Orientalism: China, the United States, and Modern Law (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013)
China
How should we go about interpreting, reading, and understanding “China” as a social text, in the face of persistent Orientalism and self-Orientalism, in an age when the ghosts of socialism are still all around us? Given its semicolonial history and its passage through communist and capitalist visions of modernity, China cannot be studied in isolation, as a preexisting thing in itself. Instead of reducing it to a preconstituted object of knowledge…
Canton Is Not Boston
What is AmericaÕs place in the history of international law, and what is ChinaÕs? From the beginning, international law was premised on the exclusion of those outside of Europe, first on the basis of religious, then cultural, difference. In declaring its independence in 1776, the United States overthrew its colonial yoke and insisted on political parity with the sovereign states of Europe. Yet it remained an open question how the young nation wou…
Gay Rights versus Queer Theory
In 1986, the United States Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of a Georgia statute under which Michael Hardwick had been charged with committing sodomy in his home with another male. The majority opinion in Bowers v. Hardwick formulated its task in the following blunt terms: to determine whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy. The answer to that question could of course only be …
Conceptualizing Corporations and Kinship
This article places China's recent Company Law in a broader historical and cultural perspective. Noting that the Company Law consists of transplanted Western corporation law, the article argues that, in a new cultural context, even the most basic provisions of transplanted law are liable to be interpreted in new and unexpected ways. To provide an informed understanding of that context, the article begins by analyzing China's indigenous tradition …
Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China
Journal Article Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China Get access Sommer Matthew H., Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial ChinaStanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. xvi, 413pp. $55.00. Teemu Ruskola Teemu Ruskola American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 44, Issue 4, October 2000, Pages 517–519, https://doi.org/10.2307/3113842 Published: 01 O…
Canton Is Not Boston
What is AmericaÕs place in the history of international law, and what is ChinaÕs? From the beginning, international law was premised on the exclusion of those outside of Europe, first on the basis of religious, then cultural, difference. In declaring its independence in 1776, the United States overthrew its colonial yoke and insisted on political parity with the sovereign states of Europe. Yet it remained an open question how the young nation wou…
Gay Rights versus Queer Theory
In 1986, the United States Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of a Georgia statute under which Michael Hardwick had been charged with committing sodomy in his home with another male. The majority opinion in Bowers v. Hardwick formulated its task in the following blunt terms: to determine whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy. The answer to that question could of course only be …
Conceptualizing Corporations and Kinship
This article places China's recent Company Law in a broader historical and cultural perspective. Noting that the Company Law consists of transplanted Western corporation law, the article argues that, in a new cultural context, even the most basic provisions of transplanted law are liable to be interpreted in new and unexpected ways. To provide an informed understanding of that context, the article begins by analyzing China's indigenous tradition …
Beyond Anti-Anti-Orientalism, or How Not to Study Chinese Law
When I embarked on the study of Chinese law, culture, and politics in the late 1980s, China was a poor, predominantly agrarian country. At the time, few observers would have predicted how soon and how fast its economy would take off. Given the unfortunate geopolitics of scholarship, getting anyone other than a handful of specialists to pay attention to Chinese law back then was an uphill battle. Today, the political and intellectual scenes have b…
Conceptualizing Corporations and Kinship
This article places China's recent Company Law in a broader historical and cultural perspective. Noting that the Company Law consists of transplanted Western corporation law, the article argues that, in a new cultural context, even the most basic provisions of transplanted law are liable to be interpreted in new and unexpected ways. To provide an informed understanding of that context, the article begins by analyzing China's indigenous tradition …
Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China
Journal Article Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China Get access Sommer Matthew H., Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial ChinaStanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. xvi, 413pp. $55.00. Teemu Ruskola Teemu Ruskola American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 44, Issue 4, October 2000, Pages 517–519, https://doi.org/10.2307/3113842 Published: 01 O…
Canton Is Not Boston
What is AmericaÕs place in the history of international law, and what is ChinaÕs? From the beginning, international law was premised on the exclusion of those outside of Europe, first on the basis of religious, then cultural, difference. In declaring its independence in 1776, the United States overthrew its colonial yoke and insisted on political parity with the sovereign states of Europe. Yet it remained an open question how the young nation wou…
Gay Rights versus Queer Theory
In 1986, the United States Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of a Georgia statute under which Michael Hardwick had been charged with committing sodomy in his home with another male. The majority opinion in Bowers v. Hardwick formulated its task in the following blunt terms: to determine whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy. The answer to that question could of course only be …
China
How should we go about interpreting, reading, and understanding “China” as a social text, in the face of persistent Orientalism and self-Orientalism, in an age when the ghosts of socialism are still all around us? Given its semicolonial history and its passage through communist and capitalist visions of modernity, China cannot be studied in isolation, as a preexisting thing in itself. Instead of reducing it to a preconstituted object of knowledge…
Excerpt from Legal Orientalism
Excerpted from Teemu Ruskola, Legal Orientalism: China, the United States, and Modern Law (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013)
China in the Age of the World Picture
This chapter places China at the centre of international legal theory. More broadly, it explores how the multiethnic Qing Empire (1644–1911) became ‘China’, a sovereign nation-state in a world of other, formally equal nation-states. In framing the question, international law is approached as a foundational aspect of the political ontology of the modern world—one that depends on and sustains a particular metaphysical conception of the world, with …
People, Inc.? Law, Economic Enterprise, and the Development of Inequality in China
This Article tells the story of two Chinas and of different forms of public enterprise associated with each: state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in urban China and township-and-village enterprises (TVEs) in rural China. Historically SOEs have constituted the dominant form of socialist enterprise in China. However, China’s unprecedented economic growth began with the rise of rural industry in the 1980s, and the bulk of rural growth was generated by a n…
Beyond Anti-Anti-Orientalism, or How Not to Study Chinese Law
When I embarked on the study of Chinese law, culture, and politics in the late 1980s, China was a poor, predominantly agrarian country. At the time, few observers would have predicted how soon and how fast its economy would take off. Given the unfortunate geopolitics of scholarship, getting anyone other than a handful of specialists to pay attention to Chinese law back then was an uphill battle. Today, the political and intellectual scenes have b…
The Making of the Chinese Working Class
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