What is it about?
The article exposes many pieces of conventional wisdom about the history of the South China Sea as untrue. It shows how evidence was misused or ignored by supporters of China's territorial claims to solidify those claims. It traces back some of the poor evidence to newspaper articles written in the 1930s.
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The article demolishes many of the conventional explanations of the 19th and 20th century history of the South China Sea and shows the need for new narratives, with stronger groundings in evidence.
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This page is a summary of: When Good Lawyers Write Bad History: Unreliable Evidence and the South China Sea Territorial Dispute, Ocean Development & International Law, January 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00908320.2017.1265362.
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