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, the book re-examines wider
histories of the so-called ‘openings’ of China and Japan in the
1850s and 1860s, as well as how Westerners sought to make sense of
these events, and to narrate their place within them. Finally the
volume considers how flows of people, capital, commerce, and
communications not only cut across the histories of distinct treaty
ports in Japan and China, but also shows their implications for
empire and exchange beyond East Asia, including Australia, New
Zealand, and the 19th-century maritime world.
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