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Simon Partner 
The Merchant’s Tale 
Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan

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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.

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List of Tables and Illustrations
Notes on the Text
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Out of Thin Air (1859–1860)
2. Years of Struggle (1860–1864)
3. Prosperity (1864–1866)
4. Transformation (1866–1873)
Conclusion: The Power of a Place
Tables
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über den Autor

Simon Partner is professor of history at Duke University. He is the author of
Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer (1999);
Toshié: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan (2004); and
The Mayor of Aihara: A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865–1925 (2009).
Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780231544467 ● Dateigröße 104.8 MB ● Verlag Columbia University Press ● Ort New York ● Land US ● Erscheinungsjahr 2017 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 5529780 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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