{"product_id":"rise-of-a-japanese-chinatown-eric-c-han-9780674491984","title":"Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama, 1894-1972","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRise of a Japanese Chinatown\u003c\/i\u003e is the first English-language monograph on the history of a Chinese immigrant community in Japan. It focuses on the transformations of that population in the Japanese port city of Yokohama from the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 to the normalization of Sino-Japanese ties in 1972 and beyond. Eric C. Han narrates the paradoxical story of how, during periods of war and peace, Chinese immigrants found an enduring place within a monoethnic state. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis study makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the construction of Chinese and Japanese identities and on Chinese migration and settlement. Using local newspapers, Chinese and Japanese government records, memoirs, and conversations with Yokohama residents, it retells the familiar story of Chinese nation building in the context of Sino-Japanese relations. But it builds on existing works by directing attention as well to non-elite Yokohama Chinese, those who sheltered revolutionary activists and served as an audience for their nationalist messages. Han also highlights contradictions between national and local identifications of these Chinese, who self-identified as Yokohama-ites (\u003ci\u003ehamakko\u003c\/i\u003e) without claiming Japaneseness or denying their Chineseness. Their historical role in Yokohama's richly diverse cosmopolitan past can offer insight into a future, more inclusive Japan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric C. Han\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 067449198X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674491984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.17h x 6.34w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2014 pg. 677","brand":"Eric C. Han","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086760718591,"sku":"9780674491984","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9ea27522-9a99-46d4-a814-66efcaf667da.jpg?v=1769096419","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rise-of-a-japanese-chinatown-eric-c-han-9780674491984","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}