Overview

This two–volume collection, supported by an in-depth introduction that addresses origins, actuality, endgame and afterlife, brings together for the first time contemporary documentation and more recent scholarship to give a broad picture of Japan’s Treaty Ports and their inhabitants at work and play in the second half of the nineteenth century. The material selected, shows how the ports’ existence and the Japanese struggle to end their special status, impacted on many aspects of modern Japan beyond their primary role as trading stations. Compared with their counterparts in China, the Japanese treaty ports cast a small shadow. They were far fewer – only four really mattered – and lasted for just under fifty years, while the Chinese ports made their centenary. Yet the Japanese ports were important. The thriving modern cities of Yokohama and Kobe had their origins as treaty ports. Nagasaki, a major centre of foreign trade since at least the sixteenth century, may not have owed so much to its treaty-port status, but it was a factor in its modern development.

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Author:   James Hoare
Publisher:   Global Books
Imprint:   Renaissance Books
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 5.00cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.500kg
ISBN:  

9781898823612

ISBN 10:   1898823618
Pages:   800
Publication Date:   01 June 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

VOLUME 1: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Acknowledgements Map of Japan's open ports and cities List of Plates Introduction and Restrospective 1. Convention between Great Britain and Japan 1854 2. Treaty of Amity and Commerce, 1858 3. Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and Japan, 1894 4. Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Empire of Japan, 1869 5. Land Regulations, etc. 6. That 'Naughty Yankee Boy': Edward H. House and Meiji Japan's Struggle for Equality 7. Early Western Architecture in Japan' 8. Japan and the Western Powers 9. The Bund: Littoral Space of Empire in the Treaty Ports of East Asia 10. Western Entrepreneurs and the Opening of Japanese Ports 11. The First Women Religious in Japan: Mother Saint Mathilde Raclot and the French Connection 12. Gentlemanly Capitalism and the Club: Expatriate Social Networks in Meiji Kobe 13. Imposed Efficiency of the Treaty Ports: Japanese Industrialization and Western Imperialist Institutions 14. The Revision of Japan's Early Commercial Treaties 15. Lafcadio Hearn on Foreign Settlements 16. An Englishman's Right to Hunt: Territorial Sovereignty and Extraterritorial Privilege in Japan 17. 'Residential Rhymes: Sympathetically Dedicated to Foreigners in Japan' 18. Parkes (Sir Harry) 9. Treaties with Foreign Powers 20. Kokusai Kekkon and Meiji Japan 21. What the Passport Requires 22. All Things to All Men 23. Two Remarkable Australians of Old Yokohama, 24. Tourist Guide 25. Japan Reverses the Unequal Treaties: The Anglo-Japanese Commercial Treaty of 1894 26. Extraterritoriality in Japan, 1858-1899 27. The Chinese in the Japanese Treaty Ports, 1858-1899: The Unknown Majority 28. The Stage Is the World: Theatrical and Musical Entertainment in Three Japanese Treaty Ports 29. 'Shades of the Past': The Introduction of Baseball into Japan 30. 'Competitors with the English sporting men'. Civilization, Enlightenment and Horse Racing: Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1860-2010. VOLUME 2 : THE TREATY PORTS Plate section faces page 258 HAKODATE 31. Dr. John Batchelor, British Scholar and Friend of the Natives of Hokkaido 32. Thomas Wright Blakiston: The Blakiston Line 33. Hakodadi 34. The Murder of Ludwig Haber 35. Hokkaido (Ezo): Some Impressions of British Visitors (1854-1873), 36. Departure from Japan 37. Mr. Enslie's Grievances: The Consul, the Ainu and the Bones KOBE 38. History of Kobe 39. Mr. Van Valkenburgh to Mr. Seward 40. A Swede in Meiji Japan: Herman Trotzig (1832-1919) NAGASAKI 41. Nagasaki: The Treaty Ports of China and Japan 42. British Influence in the Foreign Settlement at Nagasaki 43. City of Nagasaki: Chinese in Nagasaki, 1859-60 44. Italian Influence in the 'Naples of Japan', 1859-1941 45. Thomas Glover of Nagasaki YOKOHAMA 46. 'Yokuhama', in Ten Weeks in Japan, 1861, 47. Mr. Van Valkenburgh, Letter to Mr. Seward 48. The Vocabulary of the Japanese Ports Lingo 49. Treaty Port Attitudes. 50. Yokohama 51. The First Six Months of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 52. Yokohama before the Catastrophe 53. The Gankiro Teahouse and No. 9 in Old Yokohama 54. Life in a Buddhist Temple at Kanagawa 55. The Story of Yokohama Union Church, 1872-1923 56. Yokohama in 1872: A rambling account of the community in which the Asiatic Society of Japan was founded. 57. Revised and Enlarged Edition of Exercises in the Yokohama Dialect, 58. British Consuls and British Merchants, 59. Yokohama Ballads, c.1890, 1-8 342 Bibliography

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Jim Hoare is Research Counsellor and Head of North Asia and Pacific Research Group at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). He served in the British Embassies in Seoul (1981-1985), Beijing (1988-1991) and Pyongyang (2001-2002), and is the author of a number of articles and reviews on China, Japan and the two Koreas. His books include Japan’s Treaty Ports and Foreign Settlements (Japan Library, 1994), Embassies in the East: The Story of the British and Their Embassies in China, Japan and Korea from 1859 to the Present (Curzon Press, 1999), and with his wife Susan Pares North Korea in the 21st Century: An Interpretive Guide (Global Oriental, 2005) and Korea: The Past and the Present (Global Oriental, 2011).

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