《CHINA‘S PRACTICE IN THE LAW OF THE SEA》

1.Legal History1

1.The Concept of Law and International Law1

2.Post-Revolution Developments7

3.Publications12

2.China's Maritime Position:Coastline,Shipping,Ports,and Rivers15

1.Geography and Maritime Policy15

2.Development as a Shipping Power18

3.Development as a Potential Offshore Oil Producer24

4.Maritime Regulations and Agreements25

5.Rivers:Navigation and Territorial Disputes27

6.Jurisdiction over Foreign Ships in Port30

3.Bays and Straits41

1.Hangchow Bay,Gulf of Chu,Bohai Bay41

2.Chiungchou Strait46

3.Rights of Passage and International Straits49

4.Territorial Sea57

1.Breadth of Territorial Sea:Twelve Miles57

2.Baselines,Archipelagos,Coastal Islands,and Mid-Ocean Islands64

3.Method of Drawing Outer Limit72

4.Innocent Passage73

5.Jurisdiction:Civil and Criminal77

6.Cabotage81

7.Hot Pursuit83

5.Contiguous Zone,Fishing and Exclusive Economic Zone,and the High Seas85

1.The Development of the Exclusive Economic Zone85

2.Fishery Conservation and the Freedom of the Seas93

3.Pollution105

4.Navigation111

5.Nationality of Ships and Jurisdiction over Collisions and other Maritime Incidents at Sea113

6.The Continental Shelf and Oil:Delimitation in the East China and Yellow Seas117

1.China's Shelf Claims117

2.Delimitation of the Shelf between China and Korea(Yellow Sea)124

3.Delimitation of the Shelf between China and Japan(East China Sea):Diaoyutai(Senkaku)Islands and Okinawa Trough127

7.Island Disputes in the South China Sea150

8.Offshore Oil Exploration and Production and Scientific Research169

9.Area Beyond National Jurisdiction:International Seabed Mining180

1.Scope of the Area180

2.Scientific Research and Peaceful Use of the Area182

3.Pollution and Conservation185

4.Nature and Functions of the International Authority186

5.Structure of the Organization and Distribution of the Resources188

10.China at the Third UN Conference on Law of the Sea:Her Position on the 1982 Convention193

1.Procedural Participation193

2.Substantive Differences over the 1982 Convention197

Conclusions206

Select Bibliography211

Appendices229

Glossary of Chinese and English Terms308

Index317