The Pioneer in Yokohama

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A Dutchman's Adventures in the New Treaty Port

C.T. Assendelft de Coningh
Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Martha Chaiklin
September 2012 - ca. 208 pp.

Format	ISBN	Price
Cloth	1-60384-837-1 978-1-60384-837-4	$44.00
Paper	1-60384-836-3 978-1-60384-836-7	$14.95
Examination	1-60384-836-3 978-1-60384-836-7	$2.00

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Murder, typhoons, terror, and duels at dawn: Dutch merchant De Coningh here relates, in vivid, colorful detail, the story of his life on the island of Dejima and in the port of Yokohama in the late 1850s.

De Coningh's memoir provides both an unprecedented eyewitness view of daily life in the Japanese treaty ports and unique insight into the economic, military, and political forces the Western imperial powers brought to bear on newly "opened" Japan. The result is a highly readable text that is simultaneously intimate, immediate, and global in scope.

Maps and numerous illustrations are included.

Hackett Publishing

The Pioneer in Yokohama