Imperialism in East Asia
About the Book Series
Imperialism in East Asia offers an important new focus on the modern history and enduring legacies of imperialism in East Asia, providing a platform for critical exploration of the histories of imperialism in China, Korea and Japan, comparative studies of the phenomenon, and research tracing the connections between imperialisms in the region. In particular, it seeks to showcase research that brings new or neglected sources before academic and informed readerships, and welcomes contributions by new and established authors.
The German Experience of Japan’s Treaty Port System: A Case Study of C. Nickel & Co. Ltd., 1860–1923
1st Edition
By Prue S. Holstein
February 02, 2026
German merchants were attracted to the British Empire’s spheres of influence in northeast Asia from the 1700s. Their numbers increased when Britain established a network of treaty ports in China from 1842 and in Japan from 1858. A latecomer to empire, Germany, unified only in 1871, extended its ...
British Law and Governance in Treaty Port China 1842-1927: Consuls, Courts and Colonial Subjects
1st Edition
By Alexander Thompson
December 01, 2025
In putting extraterritoriality into practice in the treaty ports, the British state did not simply withdraw rights from the Chinese state; it inhabited the space made by extraterritoriality by building institutions and engaging in practices which had consequences for the development of the treaty ...
Korea 1905-1945: From Japanese Colonialism to Liberation and Independence
1st Edition
By Ku Daeyeol
December 01, 2025
This important new study by one of Korea’s leading historians focuses on the international relations of colonial Korea – from the Japanese rule of the peninsula and its foreign relations (1905–1945) to the ultimate liberation of the country at the end of the Second World War. In addition, it fills ...
Mediating Empire: An English Family in China, 1817-1927
1st Edition
By Andrew Hillier
December 01, 2025
As part of the growing scholarship on family and empire, this study examines Britain’s presence in China through the lens of one family, arguing that, as the physical embodiment of the imperial project, it provided a social and cultural mechanism for mediating Britain’s imperial power, authority ...