Chronicling Westerners in nineteenth-century East Asia : lives, linkages, and imperial connections /: lives, linkages, and imperial connections. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] Robert S.G. Fletcher and Robert Hellyer.
• Editors: Hellyer, Robert; Fletcher, Robert, 1983-
• Contents: Introduction -- William Alt and Charles Richardson: family, fortune and fortuity in nineteenth-century East Asia / Robert Fletcher (University of Missouri, USA) and Robert Hellyer (Wake Forest University, USA) -- 1. Disturbed Reciprocity: Rutherford Alcock's diplomacy and merchant communities in China and Japan / Sano Mayuko ( Kyoto University, Japan) -- 2. George S. Morrison and Japan's First British Consulate at Nagasaki / Brian Burke-Gaffney (Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Japan) -- 3. Making Safe the Settlement: the British troops at Yokohama and their influence on foreign Japanese society / Nakatake (Hori) Kanami (Yokohama Archives of History, Japan) -- 4. Between Trade and Diplomacy: The Commercial Activities of the Swiss Silk Merchants Siber & Brennwald in late Edo and early Meiji Japan / Mariko Fukuoka (National Museum of Japanese History, Japan) and Alexis Schwarzenbach (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland) -- 5. Afterlife of the Wealthy: the burial of merchant communities in nineteenth-century colonial Hong Kong / Bobby Tam (University of Warwick, UK) -- 7. Charlotte Jane: National Symbol and Global Reality / Annette Bainbridge (Independent Scholar, New Zealand) -- 8. Dreams of Expanding the British Empire: The Life of George Windsor Earl / Ranald Noel-Paton (Independent Scholar, UK) -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Publisher Details: London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: 320.54095; Noncitizens -- East Asia -- History -- 19th century; Noncitizens; East Asia -- History -- 19th century; Extrême-Orient -- Histoire -- 19e siècle; East Asia; Electronic books; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350238923; 1350238929; 9781350238893; 1350238899
• Related ISBNs: 9781350238930; 9781350238909
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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