Academic Confucius Institute at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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Lecture by Prof. Dr. Simon C. Partner (Duke University): Transformative Spaces of 19th Century East Asia: A Japanese Merchant’s Experience of Treaty Port Yokohama

Februar 2, 2016, 17:00 - 19:00

Following the experiences of one merchant, a farmer from Kōshū province (present-day Yamanashi prefecture) who left his village to open a trading venture in Yokohama in 1859, the presentation will examine the merchant communities of Yokohama during roughly the first decade of its existence, 1859-1873.

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Date:
Februar 2, 2016
Time:
17:00 - 19:00
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Verfügungsgebäude, VG Raum 3.102

Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7
37073 Göttingen
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