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  title info:
    title: Maiden voyage
    sub title: the Senzaimaru and the creation of modern Sino-Japanese relations
  title info:
    title: Senzai Maru and the creation of modern Sino-Japanese relations
  title info:
    title: Senzaimaru and the creation of modern Sino-Japanese relations
  name:
    name part: Fogel, Joshua A.
    name part: 1950-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: ebrary, Inc
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (ix, 301 pages).
  abstract: "After centuries of virtual isolation, during which time international sea travel was forbidden outside of Japan's immediate fishing shores, Japanese shogunal authorities in 1862 made the unprecedented decision to launch an official delegation to China by sea. Concerned by the fast-changing global environment, they had witnessed the ever-increasing number of incursions into Asia by European powers-not the least of which was Commodore Perry's arrival in Japan in 1853-54 and the forced opening of a handful of Japanese ports at the end of the decade. The Japanese reasoned that it was only a matter of time before they too encountered the same unfortunate fate as China; their hope was to learn from the Chinese experience and to keep foreign powers at bay. They dispatched the Senzaimaru to Shanghai with the purpose of investigating contemporary conditions of trade and diplomacy in the international city. Japanese from varied domains, as well as shogunal officials, Nagasaki merchants, and an assortment of deck hands, made the voyage along with a British crew, spending a total of ten weeks observing and interacting with the Chinese and with a handful of Westerners. Roughly a dozen Japanese narratives of the voyage were produced at the time, recounting personal impressions and experiences in Shanghai. The Japanese emissaries had the distinct advantage of being able to communicate with their Chinese hosts by means of the "brush conversation" (written exchanges in literary Chinese). For their part, the Chinese authorities also created a paper trail of reports and memorials concerning the Japanese visitors, which worked its way up and down the bureaucratic chain of command. This was the first official meeting of Chinese and Japanese in several centuries. Although the Chinese authorities agreed to few of the Japanese requests for trade relations and a consulate, nine years later China and Japan would sign the first bilateral treaty of amity in their history, a completely equal t…
  table of contents: Introduction: Situating 1862 in history and Shanghai in 1862 -- The Armistice, Shanghai, and the facilitator -- Japanese plans and the scene in Nagasaki -- Getting to Nagasaki, loading cargo, and the voyage to Shanghai -- Coming to terms with the city of Shanghai and its inhabitants -- Westerners in Shanghai: the Chinese Malaise -- Opium, Christianity, and the Taipings -- Dealings with the Chinese authorities -- Preparing for the trip home -- Subsequent missions to China in the late Edo period -- The Senzaimaru in fiction and film -- Conclusion: The Senzaimaru in history.
  note: Joshua A. Fogel.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ja---
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    geographic: Japan
    topic: Foreign economic relations
    geographic: China
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Foreign economic relations
    geographic: Japan
  subject:
    geographic: Japan
    topic: Foreign relations
    temporal: 1600-1868
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Foreign relations
    temporal: 1644-1912
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: Asia
    topic: Japan
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: Asia
    topic: China
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: Asia
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
    topic: Exports & Imports
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
    topic: International
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
    topic: International
    topic: Marketing
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: International Relations
    topic: Trade & Tariffs
  classification: HF1602.15.C6 F64 2014eb
  classification: 382/.95105209034
  classification: HIS021000 HIS008000 HIS003000
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    name:
      name part: Fogel, Joshua A., 1950-
    origin info:
      publisher: Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 2014
    identifier: (DLC) 2014006512
    identifier: (OCoLC)876432023
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  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 141103
    record change date: 20250816205944.1
    record identifier: in00003499278
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng