Culture, Power and Politics in Treaty-Port Japan, 1854-1899: Key Papers, Press and Contemporary Writings (Hardcover)

Description

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This two-volume collection brings together contemporary documentation and more recent scholarship to give a broad picture of the Japanese Treat Ports - Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki, Hakodate, Shimoda and Niigata, Tokyo and Osaka - and their inhabitants at work and play. The material selected, together with the introduction and the bibliography, will show 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.

About the Author

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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).