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Extraterritoriality in China1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

Charles Denby
Charles Denby*
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Formerly in the American diplomatic and consular service in China.
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At the Conference on the Limitation of Armaments at Washington in 1921 one of the subjects considered at the request of the Chinese delegation was a proposal that the Western Powers give up their extraterritorial rights in China. This led to the adoption by the conference at its ninth meeting on November 29th of a declaration that the Western nations “ are prepared to relinquish extraterritorial rights when satisfied that the state of Chinese laws, the arrangement for their administration and other considerations warrant them in doing so.” This was doubtless a great gratification to the Chinese delegates, but the foreigner in China may have experienced less satisfaction at the menace therein involved to a system which tens of thousands of foreign residents in China regard as the sine qua non of their welfare.

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Research Article
Information
American Journal of International Law , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , October 1924 , pp. 667 - 675
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1924

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Footnotes

1

The words “ exterritoriality” and “ extraterritoriality” have no definitely agreed upon difference of meaning. There has been a tendency to use the former as connoting the privileges of ambassadors and their suites and the latter as connoting jurisdiction under treaty privileges as in China. In this article the form extraterritoriality will be used except where the form exterritoriality appears in quotations.

References

2 Encyclopoedia Britannica, article “ Exterritoriality.”

3 C. T. Piggott, Consular Jurisdiction and Residence in the Far East.

4 Morse, H. B. , International Relations with the Chinese Empire , p. 114. Google Scholar

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6 de Groot, J. J. M., Sectarian and Religious Persecution in China , Vol. 1, pp. 102, 103.Google Scholar

7 Treaties between China and Foreign States, Vol. I, 2d ed., p. 5.

8 Ibid., p. 36.

9 These from the Land of Sinim , by SirHart, Robert, p. 68.Google Scholar