Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia

This book presents intimate, engaging, and largely untold portraits of Western lives and livelihoods in Japanese and Chinese treaty ports, as well as in the British colonies of Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, during the 19th century. It does so by examining how Westerners ''chronicled'' their overseas lives in personal letters, diplomatic dispatches, business records, and academic papers. B...