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%A Bender de Moniz Bandeira, Egas Bernard
%C Heidelberg
%D 2025
%F heidok:36333
%K Global history, Constitutional history, China, Intellectual history, Late Qing reforms
%R 10.11588/heidok.00036333
%T China and the Globalisation of Constitutions: Constitutional Thought in the Qing Empire (1838–1911)
%U https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/36333/
%X This dissertation reconstructs the formation of constitutional thought in China, ranging from the first appearance of the concept in a Chinese-language text in 1838 up to the concrete drafts for a constitution for the Qing Empire produced in the years 1908–1911. Going beyond existing literature, which treats early Chinese constitutional thought as a national or at best regional phenomenon, this study recounts it from a broader perspective and places it in its global context, examining the Chinese refraction of the process by which constitutions became universal elements of contemporary states.
%Z PhD defended under a cotutelle (joint degree) programme with Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan)