Life in treaty port China and Japan. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Donna Brunero, Stephanie Villalta Puig.
• Editors: Brunero, Donna; Villalta Puig, Stephanie
• Contents: Introduction.- Part I Everyday Life.- 'Ponies, Amahs and all that…' Family lives in China's treaty ports.- Horses and Hostlers in the Making of a Japanese Foreign Settlement.- Beyond the Bund: Life in the Outports.- Part II Health and Welfare.- Treaty Ports and the Medical Geography of China: Imperial Maritime Customs Service Approaches to Climate and Disease.- 'to take … measures against the further spread of the … disease': Japanese, International Migrants, and Cholera in the Yokohama Treaty Port, 1859-1899.- Part III Law and Land.- Extraterritoriality and the Rule of Law in the Treaty Ports: A Research Note on the Malay Murder Trials of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan.- 'Rent-in-Perpetuity' System and Xiamen Title Deed: A Study of Sino-Anglo Land Transactions in China's Treaty Ports.- Part IV: Visualising the Port.- Who Miniaturises China?: Treaty Port Souvenirs from Ningbo.- The Arrival of the 'Modern' West in Yokohama: Images of the Japanese Experience, 1859-1899.- Part V: Treaty Port Legacies.- Memories of Times Past: the legacy of Japan's Treaty Ports.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 382.095; Harbors -- China -- Social life and customs; Harbors -- Japan -- Social life and customs; Material culture -- China; Material culture -- Japan; Free ports and zones -- China; Free ports and zones -- Japan; China -- Commerce -- Social aspects; Japan -- Commerce -- Social aspects; China -- Relations; Japan -- Relations
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811073687
• Related ISBNs: 9789811073670
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