Synopses & Reviews
New Frontiers brings together scholars in the history of South and East Asia and uses newly available source materials in a pioneering comparative study of Western and Japanese imperialism. The chapters examine European, American, and Japanese communities in China and Korea. They challenge received notions of agency and collaboration by looking at the roles of British Indians, Jews, Japanese and colonial subjects, Chinese Christians, and White Russian refugees in Korea and China.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-279) and index.
About the Author
Robert Bickers is Lecturer in History at the University of Bristol.
Christian Henriot is Professor at Lumiere-Lyon 2 University.
Table of Contents
Rewriting Treaty Port History--Robert Bickers and Christian Henriot * Colonialism "in a Chinese Atmosphere"--Christopher Munn * Marginal Westerners in Shanghai--Chiara Betta * Indian Communities in China c. 1842-1949--Claude Markovits * Westerners and Chinese Christians in Chongqing, 1870s-1900--Judith Wyman * The Japanese and the Jews--Joshua Fogel * Japanese Colonial Citizenship in Treaty Port China--Barbara Brooks * Denied and Besieged--Alain Delissen * "Little Japan" in Shanghai--Christian Henriot * Who Were the Shanghai Municipal Police, and Why Were They There?--Robert Bickers * Policing the Shanghai French Concession (1907-37)--Christine Cornet * The Russian Diaspora Community in Shanghai--Marcia Ristaino * In Search of Identity--Francoise Kreissler * The Shanghai American Community, 1937-1949--Mark F. Wilkinson * Afterword: A Colonial World--John Darwin