Culture Power & Politics in Treaty Port Japan 1854-1899 Key Papers Press and Contemporary Writings
ISBN: 9781898823629
Platform/Publisher: Cambridge Core / Amsterdam University Press
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This two-volume collection, supported by an in-depth introduction that addresses origins, actuality, endgame and afterlife, brings together for the first time contemporary documentation and more recent scholarship to give a broad picture of Japan's Treaty Ports and their inhabitants at work and play in the second half of the nineteenth century.


Hoare James :

Dr. J.E. Hoare is a Honorary Research Associate, SOAS University of London, and an Associate Fellow in the Asia-Pacific Programme, Chatham House, London (RIIA).Jim Hoare is Research Counsellor and Head of North Asia and Pacific Research Group at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). He served in the British Embassies in Seoul (1981-1985), Beijing (1988-1991) and Pyongyang (2001-2002), and is the author of a number of articles and reviews on China, Japan and the two Koreas. His books include Japan's Treaty Ports and Foreign Settlements (Japan Library, 1994), Embassies in the East: The Story of the British and Their Embassies in China, Japan and Korea from 1859 to the Present (Curzon Press, 1999), and with his wife Susan Pares North Korea in the 21st Century: An Interpretive Guide (Global Oriental, 2005) and Korea: The Past and the Present (Global Oriental, 2011).

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