Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama, 1894-1972

279 Pages·2014·18.531 MB·English

by  Eric C. Han

Rise of a Japan ese Chinatown
harvard east asian monographs 367

Rise of a Japan ese Chinatown
Yokohama, 1894– 1972
eric c. han
Published by the Harvard University Asia Center
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Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London 2014
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Han, Eric C., 1974-
Rise of a Japanese Chinatown : Yokohama, 1894–1972 / Eric C. Han.
pages cm. — (Harvard East Asian monographs ; 367)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-674-49198-4 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Chinese—Japan—
Yokohama-shi—History—20th century. 2. Yokohama-shi (Japan)—
History—20th century. 3. Yokohama-shi (Japan)—Ethnic relations—
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Contents
List of Figures and Maps ix
Ack nowl edgm ents xi
List of Abbreviations xv
Introduction 1
1 The Sino-J apanese War and Ethnic Unity, 1894– 95 23
2 Expatriate Nationalists and the Politics of Mixed
Residence, 1895– 1911 56
3 Cooperation, Confl ict, and Modern Life in an
International Port, 1912– 32 90
4 Sino-J apanese War, Sino-J apanese Friendship,
and the Yokohama-i te Identity, 1933– 45 124
5 A Town Divided: The Cold War in Yokohama
Chinatown, 1945–7 2 157
Conclusion: Minorities in a Monoethnic State and
the Micropolitics of Everyday Life 194
Appendix 221
Bibliography 223
Index 239

Figures and Maps
Figures
0.1 Xuanwu Gate (Genbumon) 2
0.2 The mild bustle of a weekday even ing in Yokohama
Chinatown, March 2005 3
0.3 The Chinese population in Japan, 1890– 1980 10
0.4 The Chinese population of Yokohama, 1890– 1980 11
1.1A-1 .1B The Old Settlement ca. 1894 and Chinatown ca. 1910 32–33
1.2 A 1907 advertisement for Ah Shing’s tailor shop 48
2.1 Datong xuexiao classroom in 1898 64
2.2 Inukai Tsuyoshi and Ōkuma Shigenobu at the
Datong xuexiao 67
2.3 “An Upstanding Brother,” from Xiaoxue xinduben,
volume 1, lesson 8 82
2.4 “Letter and Carp,” from Xiaoxue xinduben, volume 1,
lesson 48 83
3.1 An advertisement for Hakugatei’s shūmai,
“a Yokohama specialty” 100
3.2 The Heianrō and Manshinrō restaurants (1935) 101
x Figures and Maps
3.3 The Chinese Athletics Club with Liang Fuchu,
November 1922 105
4.1 Yokohama Chinese waving Japan ese
fl ags and marching in support of Japan’s war in Asia 126
4.2 Children at the Yokohama Chinese school practicing
calligraphy, 1942 143
5.1 Yokohama Chinatown in 1945 and in 1975 158
Maps
1 Two clusters of Chinese settlement, ca. 1890 31
2A-2B A comparison of an 1891 print titled Yokohama
shinkei ichiran zue and a 2013 satellite image 196–197