Overview
Explores the possible comparisons and contrasts that can be made between 19th and 20th century treaty ports in China and Japan
Considers the total way of life experienced through the physicality of the body as well as its expression through more idealist forms and values.
Offers an interdisciplinary study of ports across research strands such as medicine and health, law, material culture and the history of urban studies
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Treaty Port Legacies
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This edited volume moves beyond the traditional examination of the treaty ports of China and Japan as places of cultural interaction. It moves ‘beyond the Bund’, presenting instead the history of material culture, the everyday life of the residents of the treaty ports beyond the symbology of Shanghai's waterfront. Bringing for the first time together scholars of China and Japan, museum curators, legal, economic and architectural historians, it studies the treaty ports not only as sites of cultural exchange, but also as sites of social contestation, accommodation and mobility, covering topics as varied as day to day life itself, such as family, property and law, health and welfare, travel, visual culture and memory. The call of this volume is to peel the multiple layers of the encounter between East and West in the treaty ports of China and Japan.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Stephanie Villalta Puig is Honorary Fellow at the University of Hull, United Kingdom. She was Assistant Professor at the Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong and held posts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, La Trobe University and the Australian National University, from where she holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in History. Dr Villalta Puig specialises in the study of the British Empire in China, with particular interests in world history, cultural and medical history.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Life in Treaty Port China and Japan
Editors: Donna Brunero, Stephanie Villalta Puig
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7368-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-7367-0Published: 16 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3944-8Published: 21 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-7368-7Published: 30 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 300
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian History, Asian Culture, Imperialism and Colonialism