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100 1 $aPartner, Simon,$d1958-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe merchant's tale :$bYokohama and the transformation of Japan /$cSimon Partner.
264 1 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$c[2018]
300 $axxii, 291 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm.
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490 1 $aAsia perspectives : history, society, and culture
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 233-271) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Out of thin air (1859-1860) -- Years of struggle (1860-1864) -- Prosperity (1864-1866) -- Transformation (1866-1873) -- Conclusion : the power of a place.
520 8 $aIn April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chu emon left his old life behind. Chu emon, 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. This book looks through Chu emon's eyes at the upheavals of this period, using the story of an ordinary merchant farmer and its Yokohama setting as a vantage point onto sweeping social transformation and its unwitting agents. In a narrative history rich in colorful detail, Simon Partner focuses on Japan's common people to investigate the relationship between individual motivation and social change. Chu emon, like most newcomers to Yokohama, came in search of economic opportunity. Partner explores how he and other mundane actors in Yokohama's daily life shed light on vital issues in Japan's modern history, including the legacies of the Meiji Restoration; the nature of the East Asian treaty port system; and the importance of regimes of daily life such as food, clothing, medicine, and hygiene in the negotiation of national identity. Though centered on the experiences of an individual, The Merchant's Tale is also the history of a place. Created under pressure from aggressive foreign powers, Yokohama was the scene of gunboat diplomacy, the birthplace of new lifestyles, a connection to global markets, and the beachhead of Japan's technological modernization.
600 10 $aShinohara, Chu emon,$d1809-1891.
650 0 $aMerchants$zJapan$vBiography.
651 0 $aYokohama-shi (Japan)$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aYokohama-shi (Japan)$xEconomic conditions.
651 0 $aYokohama-shi (Japan)$xPolitics and government.
651 0 $aJapan$xSocial conditions$y19th century.
651 0 $aJapan$xEconomic conditions$y19th century.
651 0 $aJapan$xPolitics and government$y19th century.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aPartner, Simon.$tMerchant's tale.$dNew York : Columbia University Press, 2018$z9780231544467$w(DLC) 2017061832
830 0 $aAsia perspectives.
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