Claiming possession: Asia, Europe and empire

该项目旨在重新评估早期现代世界中所有权主张的性质。索赔创造了我们认为理所当然的边界，其法律的人工制品随处可见。索赔从来不是欧洲的专利，亚洲过去是，现在仍然是索赔的活跃场所。该项目将研究欧洲人如何在强大的亚洲国家的阴影下声称拥有人民，土地和资源，并绘制当地反诉和法律的抵抗过程的出现。该研究还将分析亚洲政治在边境地区的历史主张做法。该项目可以展示现代早期发展起来的做法如何影响当前南中国海和东海的主权争端。

This project aims to reassess the nature of claims to possession across the early modern world. Claiming created the borders we take for granted and its legal artefacts are everywhere evident. Claiming was never only a European enterprise, and Asia was and remains an active site for claiming. The project will examine how Europeans claimed possession over people, lands and resources in the shadow of powerful Asian states and charts the emergence of local counterclaims and processes of legal resistance. The research will also analyse Asian polities’ historical claiming practices across borderland areas. This project could show how practices developed in the early modern period influence current sovereignty disputes in the South and East China Seas.