ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with Japanese essays written in 1985 on post-opium war China. Kato Yuzo offers a comparison between the Ansei Treaty and the Tianjin and Beijing Treaties; he terms Ansei a negotiated treaty and the latter two the results of defeat in war. As for articles concerned with the response of the Chinese authorities, namely the yangwu or early Westernization movement, we have an essay by Kubota Bunji, “Is Our Image of Modern China Distorteda?” (Shicho N. S. 16). In concrete terms, what would be best for developing research on the early Westernization movement? One approach, as a matter of course, would be to forage assiduously for historical documents and unearth new historical facts. Popular movements, of course, form one important part of modern Chinese history. The only essay worthy of note was Ozawa Junko’s “The Xiamen Uprising of 1852” (Shiron 38).
