New frontiers : imperialism's new communities in East Asia, 1842-1953 / edited by Robert Bickers and Christian Henriot.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bickers, Robert A., editor.

Henriot, Christian, editor.

Series:

Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

Studies in imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europeans--China--History.

Europeans.

Europeans--Korea--History.

Americans--China--History.

Americans.

Americans--Korea--History.

Japanese--China--History.

Japanese.

Japanese--Korea--History.

Imperialism--Social aspects--East Asia--History.

Imperialism.

China--Ethnic relations--History.

China.

Korea--Ethnic relations--History.

Korea.

East Asia--Colonization--History.

East Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First digital paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 established. This book explores two themes at the heart of the colonial process: agency and identity. The agents of British empire in China included the usual suspects: Britons from the official and military castes, as well as Iraqi Jewish merchants, Parsis and Indian Jews, Eurasians, South East Asian Chinese. The reliance of colonial regimes on local middlemen has become an essential part of any explanation of colonialism, though it is only very recently that the model has been systematically applied to Hong Kong. The Daniel Richard Caldwell affair could hardly have broken out at a more difficult time for the young and problematic British colony at Hong Kong. The book defines the ambiguous positioning of the Baghdadis vis-a-vis the British, and shows that their marginality did not represent, as a whole, a significant hindrance to their sojourn in the Shanghai foreign settlements. In Shanghai the German community recognised the leading role which the Nazi party held and which everyone, even the other foreign communities, seemed to accept. The book also looks at the aspects of their economic, social and political life that Indians led in the colony of Hong Kong and in the Chinese treaty ports.

Contents:

General Editor's introduction

1. Introduction- Robert Bickers and Christian Henriot

2. Colonialism 'in a Chinese atmosphere': the Caldwell affair and the perils of collaboration in early colonial Hong Kong - Christopher Munn

3. Marginal Westerners in Shanghai: The Baghdadi Jewish community, 1845-1931 - Chiara Betta

4. Indian communities in China, c. 1842-1949 - Claude Markovits

5. Foreigners or outsiders? Westerners and Chinese Christians in Chongqing, 1870s-1900 - Judith Wyman

6. The Japanese and the Jews: a comparative analysis of their communities in Harbin, 1898-1930 - Joshua A. Fogel

7. Japanese colonial citizenship in treaty port China: the location of Koreans and Taiwanese in the imperial order - Barbara J. Brooks

8. Denied and besieged: the Japanese community of Korea, 1876-1945 - Alain Delissen

9. 'Little Japan' in Shanghai: an insulated community, 1875-1945 - Christian Henriot

10. Who were the Shanghai Municipal Police and why where they there? The British recruits of 1919 - Robert Bickers

11. The Russian diaspora community in Shanghai - Marcia R. Ristaino

12. In search of identity: the German community in Shanghai, 1933-45 - Françoise Kreissler

13. The Shanghai American community, 1937-49 - Mark F. Wilkinson

14. Afterword: a colonial world - John Darwin

Bibliography - Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Apr 2026).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719056048

0719056047

OCLC:

1524994996