1st Edition
The German Experience of Japan’s Treaty Port System A Case Study of C. Nickel & Co. Ltd., 1860–1923
By Prue S. Holstein
Copyright 2026
300 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 imperial influence in China in 1898. This is the story of two German merchants, Carl Nickel and his... Read more
Editor’s Preface, Acknowledgements, Editorial Notes, Prologue, Introduction & Background, Part I: Family Origins Chapter 1 Hamburg: A Trading Port Connected to China and Japan Part II: Unequal Treaties & Extraterritoriality Chapter 2 Nagasaki: Civil Unrest and Consular Jurisdiction Chapter 3 Kobe: Building a Waterfront Empire Part III: Revised Treaties Chapter 4 Transitioning to Japanese Jurisdiction Chapter 5 Operating in the Hatoba Chapter 6 Managing a Japanese Workforce Chapter 7 Securing Land Tenure Chapter 8 The Case of the Dynamite Explosion in the Port of Kobe Part IV: World War One Chapter 9 World War One: The British Declare Economic War on German Merchant Chapter 10 World War One: The Swineherd Kidnapping Case, Conclusions, Bibliography, Index.
Biography
In a forty-year career spanning the private, government and not-profit sectors Prue Holstein spent fourteen years in Japan, first in Tokyo in the private sector, then in Osaka as Australian Consul and Trade Commissioner and finally in Tokyo as Commissioner for the Victorian State government. She was awarded a PhD by Monash University.
