Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia: Lives, Linkages, and Imperial Connections

Cover\nContents\nIllustrations\nTables\nContributors\nForeword\nAcknowledgements\nNotes on Conventions\nMap of Principal Locations\nIntroduction William Alt and Charles Richardson: Family, fortune and fortuity in nineteenth-century East Asia Robert S. G. Fletcher and Robert Hellyer\n1 Disturbed reciprocity: Rutherford Alcock’s diplomacy and merchant communities in China and Japan Sano Mayuko\n2 George S. Morrison and Japan’s first British consulate at Nagasaki Brian Burke-Gaffney\n3 Making safe the settlement: The British troops at Yokohama and their influence on foreign and Japanese society Nakatake (Hori) Kanami\n4 Between trade and diplomacy: The commercial activities of the Swiss silk merchants Siber and Brennwald in late Edo and early Meiji Japan Fukuoka Mariko and Alexis Schwarzenbach\n5 Afterlife of the wealthy: The burial of mercantile communities in nineteenth-century colonial Hong Kong Bobby Tam\n6 Charlotte Jane: National symbol and global reality Annette Bainbridge\n7 Dreams of expanding the British Empire: The life of George Windsor Earl Ranald Noel-Paton\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex