Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-century East Asia : Lives, Linkages, and...

by Fletcher, Robert S. G. (EDT); Gerteis, Christopher (EDT); Hellyer

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Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-century East Asia : Lives, Linkages, and Imperial Connections, Hardcover by Fletcher, Robert S. G. (EDT); Gerteis, Christopher (EDT); Hellyer, Robert (EDT), ISBN 1350238902, ISBN-13 9781350238909, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK This book presents intimate, engaging, and largely untold portraits of Western lives and livelihoods in Japanese and Chinese treaty ports, as well as in the British colonies of Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, during the 19th century. It does so by examining how Westerners 'chronicled' their overseas lives in personal letters, diplomatic dispatches, business records, and academic papers. By utilizing these rich but often overlooked sources, Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia presents new insights into the pace and challenges of daily life, especially in the Japanese treaty ports of Nagasaki and Yokohama but also in Shanghai and Hong Kong. In the process, the volume stresses the 'connectivities' between its subjects, as Westerners' lives intersected, and as they moved between Japanese and Chinese port cities. Contributors based in the USA, Japan, the UK, New Zealand and Switzerland reveal the various commercial, maritime, and imperial connections, linked in surprising ways to Westerners in East Asia portrayed here, which shaped colonial development in Australia and New Zealand. Through a broad investigation of Westerners recording their lives, th re-examines wider histories of the so-calle

• ISBN: 9781350238909
• Condition: Fine

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