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The Periodical Press in Treaty-Port Japan: Conflicting Reports from Yokohama, 1861-1870
Author(s): Todd S Munson (Author)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 13 Nov. 2012
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 180 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004233652
- ISBN-13: 9789004233652
Book Description
In The Periodical Press in Treaty-Port Japan, Munson offers an analytical survey of print media published in the ‘treaty port’ of Yokohama during the tumultuous final decade of the Tokugawa shogunate. His focus includes English-language newspapers; ‘hybrid’ multinational newspapers, published by Westerners but written in Japanese; and the Japan Punch, a satirical illustrated journal published by Charles Wirgman (Japan correspondent and illustrator for the Illustrated London News). Whereas previous studies of the topic have been written from the perspective of institutional development, The Periodical Press in Treaty-Port Japan provides a fresh take in the field of Japanese media history–and convincingly demonstrates that these early efforts were in fact vital, sophisticated, and exciting.
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About the Author
Todd S. Munson, Ph.D. (2004), Indiana University, is Associate Professor and Director of Asian Studies at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia (USA). He has published multiple articles and book chapters on Japanese and American visual media culture.
