A review of two titles in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute’s publication series roster was recently published in the Journal of Asian Studies. In the journal’s May 2019 issue, Eric C. Han, author of Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama 1894-1972, discusses Yasuhiro Makimura’s Yokohama and the Silk Trade: How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843-1893, and Simon Partner’s The Merchant’s Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan.
“Amid our global turn toward populism and economic nationalism, these make for thought-provoking reading on the promise and consequence of global trade,” Han wrote in his review, titled “Of Silk and Synecdoche: Economic Histories of Yokohama across Historical Scales.”
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