Teemu Ruskola (Emory University School of Law; University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School) has posted A Reader's Guide to Legal Orientalism (Ancilla Iuris, 2021) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
My book Legal Orientalism: China, the United States, and Modern Law (Harvard University Press 2013) was published in translation in China in 2016. This essay analyzes the Chinese reception of this book. Originally addressed to a North American readership, Legal Orientalism examines critically the asymmetric relationship in which Euro-American law and Chinese law stand to one another, the former regarding itself as an embodiment of universal values while viewing the latter’s as culturally particular ones. The essay explores what happens when a “Western” work of self-criticism is transmitted to an “Eastern” audience. In this context, it analyzes the politics of self-Orientalism, Oriental legalism, and the comparative method.
Links to the English & Chinese versions in the abstract.