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Paperback Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia: Lives, Linkages, and Imperial Connections Book

ISBN: 1350238937

ISBN13: 9781350238930

Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia: Lives, Linkages, and Imperial Connections

(Part of the SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan Series)

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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,...

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