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Book Synopsis Tales of Foreign Settlements in Japan by : Harold S. Williams
Download or read book Tales of Foreign Settlements in Japan written by Harold S. Williams and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are twenty-five tales about the Foreign Settlements or Concessions in Japan following the opening of the country to foreign trade in 1859, and an additional ten strange stories that revoke around those times. The tales are historically accurate, sociologically significant and, most important of all, eminently readable. These Tales of Foreign Settlements in Japan are the product of years of painstaking and scholarly research by a writer who is a business man and a recognized authority on the history of the Foreign Concessions in Japan, a man who has resided here for over thirty-five years.
Book Synopsis Tales of the Foreign Settlements in Japan by : Harold S. Williams
Download or read book Tales of the Foreign Settlements in Japan written by Harold S. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tales of the foreign settlements in Japan. Decorations by J. Williams by :
Download or read book Tales of the foreign settlements in Japan. Decorations by J. Williams written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tales of the Foreign Settlements in Japan ... Decorations by Jean Williams by : Harold Stennett WILLIAMS
Download or read book Tales of the Foreign Settlements in Japan ... Decorations by Jean Williams written by Harold Stennett WILLIAMS and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Foreigners in Mikadoland by : Harold S. Williams
Download or read book Foreigners in Mikadoland written by Harold S. Williams and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of life in the foreign communities and former Foreign Settlements or Concessions in Japan that flourished after Japan was opened to foreign trade in 1859. It tells of the imposters, the eccentrics, and the scandals, no less than the achievements of the scholars, the merchants, and the diplomats who contributed so much to the development of modern Japan. Here you will meet Townsend Harris, the first U.S. Consul General to Japan, the Grand Duke Alexander, and many other less well known, but just as interesting figures such as the energetic Rev. Bailey, the remarkable Mr. McLeod, and the Misses Butterfly and Chrysanthemum. All these events are portrayed in a series of chapters, arranged as nearly as possible in chronological order, each woven around some of the happenings of those times. Carefully researched, all of these events are historically accurate in every detail, and are written in Mr. Williams' highly enjoyable style.
Book Synopsis Shades of the Past by : Harold S. Williams
Download or read book Shades of the Past written by Harold S. Williams and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prowling among these stories about Japan one finds riffraff and gentlemen, pirates and warriors, saints and sinners, smugglers and legitimate businessmen. All those, in fact, who made up the foreign communities of Japan in the early days. Harold S. Williams tells about them with the same inimitable humor, irony, drama and whimsy that made his earlier Tales of the Foreign Settlements such a popular success. With due regard for historical accuracy he recreates those fantastic days and the furor and fun with which they were filled. Here you can enjoy the privileged social status of belonging to the Victorian Volunteer Steam Fire Engine Company of Yokohama; you can join those Japanese pirates who were the first to meet Englishmen; arbitrate Japan's first labor dispute, involving foreigners, of course; witness the massacre of forty thousand Japanese Christians; revel in Nagasaki when it was the Paris of the Far East; travel over the Tokaido when it was the most picturesque and colorful of the world's highways; watch at close range each gruesome detail of an act of harakiri; dive for sunken treasures; watch the world's largest wooden vessel burn to the water line; marvel at one of the greatest advertising feats of all time.
Book Synopsis Tales of the Settlement in Japan by : Harold S. Williams
Download or read book Tales of the Settlement in Japan written by Harold S. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tales of Old Japan by : Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford
Download or read book Tales of Old Japan written by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford and published by Alan Rodgers Books. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The books which have been written of late years about Japan have either been compiled from official records, or have contained the sketchy impressions of passing travelers. Of the inner life of the Japanese the world at large knows but little: their religion, their superstitions, their ways of thought, the hidden springs by which they move -- all these are as yet mysteries. Nor is this to be wondered at. The recent revolution in Japan has wrought changes social as well as political; and it may be that when, in addition to the advance which has already been made, railways and telegraphs shall have connected the principal points of the Land of Sunrise, the old Japanese, such as he was and had been for centuries when we found him eleven short years ago, will have become extinct. . . . -- Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, "Lord Redesdale, G.C.V.O., K.C.B." Formerly Second Secretary to the British Legation in Japan
Book Synopsis Tales of Old Japan by : Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale
Download or read book Tales of Old Japan written by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Japan's Early Experience of Contract Management in the Treaty Ports by : Yuki Allyson Honjo
Download or read book Japan's Early Experience of Contract Management in the Treaty Ports written by Yuki Allyson Honjo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first in-depth study of the early trial-and-error experiences of contracting between Japanese and western merchants trading in the Japanese Treaty Ports in the eighteen year period immediately following the opening of the ports in 1859. Fundamental to the equation were the inevitable east-west cultural and legal ambiguities that impacted on the traders. The learning curve for both westerners and Japanese regarding the nature and application of western contracting law was predictably difficult, tortuous and open to constant misunderstanding. Nevertheless, it was within such a framework that the principal benchmarks for trade with Japan were set down and which, in essence, have lasted to the present day.
Book Synopsis Japanese History & Culture from Ancient to Modern Times by : John W. Dower
Download or read book Japanese History & Culture from Ancient to Modern Times written by John W. Dower and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rise of a Japanese Chinatown by : Eric C. Han
Download or read book Rise of a Japanese Chinatown written by Eric C. Han and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rise of a Japanese Chinatown is the first English-language monograph on the history of a Chinese immigrant community in Japan. It focuses on the transformations of that population in the Japanese port city of Yokohama from the Sino–Japanese War of 1894–1895 to the normalization of Sino–Japanese ties in 1972 and beyond. Eric C. Han narrates the paradoxical story of how, during periods of war and peace, Chinese immigrants found an enduring place within a monoethnic state.This study makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the construction of Chinese and Japanese identities and on Chinese migration and settlement. Using local newspapers, Chinese and Japanese government records, memoirs, and conversations with Yokohama residents, it retells the familiar story of Chinese nation building in the context of Sino-Japanese relations. But it builds on existing works by directing attention as well to non-elite Yokohama Chinese, those who sheltered revolutionary activists and served as an audience for their nationalist messages. Han also highlights contradictions between national and local identifications of these Chinese, who self-identified as Yokohama-ites (hamakko) without claiming Japaneseness or denying their Chineseness. Their historical role in Yokohama’s richly diverse cosmopolitan past can offer insight into a future, more inclusive Japan."
Book Synopsis Chicorel Index to Short Stories in Anthologies and Collections by : Marietta Chicorel
Download or read book Chicorel Index to Short Stories in Anthologies and Collections written by Marietta Chicorel and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mirror in the Shrine by : Robert A. Rosenstone
Download or read book Mirror in the Shrine written by Robert A. Rosenstone and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the travels of Griffis, Morse, and Hearn in the late 1800s, these stories evoke the immediacy of daily experience in Meiji, Japan, a nation still feudal in many of its habits yet captivating to Westerners for its gentleness, beauty, and pure charm. Illustrated.
Book Synopsis Tales of Old Japan by : Lord Redesdale
Download or read book Tales of Old Japan written by Lord Redesdale and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The books which have been written of late years about Japan have either been compiledfrom official records, or have contained the sketchy impressions of passing travellers. Ofthe inner life of the Japanese the world at large knows but little: their religion, theirsuperstitions, their ways of thought, the hidden springs by which they move-all theseare as yet mysteries. Nor is this to be wondered at. The first Western men who came incontact with Japan-I am speaking not of the old Dutch and Portuguese traders andpriests, but of the diplomatists and merchants of eleven years ago-met with a coldreception. Above all things, the native Government threw obstacles in the way of anyinquiry into their language, literature, and history. The fact was that the Tycoon'sGovernment-with whom alone, so long as the Mikado remained in seclusion in hissacred capital at Kiôto, any relations were maintained-knew that the Imperial purplewith which they sought to invest their chief must quickly fade before the strong sunlightwhich would be brought upon it so soon as there should be European linguists capableof examining their books and records.
Book Synopsis The Merchant's Tale by : Simon Partner
Download or read book The Merchant's Tale written by Simon Partner and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chūemon left his old life behind. Chūemon, a well-off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port city of Yokohama, where he remained for the next fourteen years. There, as a merchant trading with foreigners in the aftermath of Japan’s 1853 “opening” to the West, he witnessed the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate, the civil war that followed, and the Meiji Restoration’s reforms. The Merchant’s Tale looks through Chūemon’s eyes at the upheavals of this period. In a narrative history rich in colorful detail, Simon Partner uses the story of an ordinary merchant farmer and its Yokohama setting as a vantage point onto sweeping social transformation and its unwitting agents. Chūemon, like most newcomers to Yokohama, came in search of economic opportunity. His story sheds light on vital issues in Japan’s modern history, including the legacies of the Meiji Restoration; the East Asian treaty port system; and the importance of everyday life—food, clothing, medicine, and hygiene—for national identity. Centered on an individual, The Merchant’s Tale is also the story of a place. Created under pressure from aggressive foreign powers, Yokohama was the scene of gunboat diplomacy, a connection to global markets, the birthplace of new lifestyles, and the beachhead of Japan’s modernization. Partner’s history of a vibrant meeting place humanizes the story of Japan’s revolutionary 1860s and their profound consequences for Japanese society and culture.
Book Synopsis American Samurai by : Fred G. Notehelfer
Download or read book American Samurai written by Fred G. Notehelfer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book reveals how a man on the way to being a misfit in the United States became the heroic American samurai." It discusses Janes as one of the few Westerners allowed to live in the interior and as the "father" of the Kumamoto Band, which became the dominant wing of Japanese Protestantism and a significant modernizing force. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
