New frontiers

Imperialism's new communities in East Asia, 1842–1953

Robert Bickers, Christian Henriot

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9780719089329
• eBook ISBN:
  9781526119742
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Asian History
• Index: History

In the new world order mapped out by Japanese and Western imperialism in East Asia after the mid-nineteenth century opium wars, communities of merchants and settlers took root in China and Korea. New identities were constructed, new modes of collaboration formed and new boundaries between the indigenous and foreign communities were literally and figuratively established.
Newly available in paperback, this pioneering and comparative study of Western and Japanese imperialism examines European, American and Japanese communities in China and Korea, and challenges received notions of agency and collaboration by also looking at the roles in China of British and Japanese colonial subjects from Korea, Taiwan and India, and at Chinese Christians and White Russian refugees.

This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of the history and anthropology of imperialism, colonialism's culture and East Asian history, as well as contemporary Asian affairs.

Table of contents

• Front matter
• Contents
• List of tables
• List of figures
• General editor's introduction
• Preface
• The contributors
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Colonialism 'in a Chinese atmosphere': the Caldwell affair and the perils of collaboration in early colonial Hong Kong: Christopher Munn
• Marginal Westerners in Shanghai: the Baghdadi Jewish community, 1845-1931
• Indian communities in China, c. 1842-1949
• Foreigners or outsiders? Westerners and Chinese Christians in Chongqing 1870s-1900
• The Japanese and the Jews: a comparative analysis of their communities in Harbin, 1898-1930
• Japanese colonial citizenship in treaty port China: the location of Koreans and Taiwanese in the imperial order
• Denied and besieged: the Japanese community of Korea, 1876-1945
• 'Little Japan' in Shanghai: an insulated community, 1875-1945
• Who were the Shanghai Municipal Police, and why where they there? The British recruits of 1919
• The Russian diaspora community in Shanghai
• In search of identity: the German community in Shanghai, 1933-1945
• The Shanghai American community, 1937-1949
• Afterword: a colonial world
• Bibliography
• Index