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Pacific Pioneers - Japanese Journeys to America and Hawaii, 1850-80 (Paperback)
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Pacific Pioneers - Japanese Journeys to America and Hawaii, 1850-80 (Paperback)
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Shipwrecked sailors, samurai seeking a material and sometimes
spiritual education, and laborers seeking to better their economic
situation: these early Japanese travelers to the West occupy a
little-known corner of Asian American studies. Pacific Pioneers
profiles the first Japanese who resided in the United States or the
Kingdom of Hawaii for a substantial period of time and the
Westerners who influenced their experiences. Although Japanese
immigrants did not start arriving in substantial numbers in the
West until after 1880, in the previous thirty years a handful of
key encounters helped shape relations between Japan and the United
States. John E. Van Sant explores the motivations and
accomplishments of these resourceful, sometimes visionary
individuals who made important inroads into a culture quite
different from their own and paved the way for the Issei and Nisei.
Pacific Pioneers presents detailed biographical sketches of
Japanese such as Joseph Heco, Niijima Jo, and the converts to the
Brotherhood of the New Life and introduces the American
benefactors, such as William Griffis, David Murray, and Thomas Lake
Harris, who built relationships with their foreign visitors. Van
Sant also examines the uneasy relations between Japanese laborers
and sugar cane plantation magnates in Hawaii during this period and
the shortlived Wakamatsu colony of Japanese tea and silk producers
in California. A valuable addition to the literature, Pacific
Pioneers brings to life a cast of colorful, long-forgotten
characters while forging a critical link between Asian and Asian
American studies.
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