Chapter 1 Rethinking the Maria Luz Incident

This chapter adopts methodological cosmopolitanism to revisit the Maria Luz Incident (1872), a colourful diplomatic episode that involved two civil suits brought before a court created for the specific purpose of adjudicating whether the ship’s captain ill-treated and abused his Chinese ‘passengers’...

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מחבר ראשי: Mihalopoulos, Bill
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-336252025-02-05T15:21:20Z Chapter 1 Rethinking the Maria Luz Incident Mihalopoulos, Bill Japanese studies Japanese culture and society Japanese politics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology This chapter adopts methodological cosmopolitanism to revisit the Maria Luz Incident (1872), a colourful diplomatic episode that involved two civil suits brought before a court created for the specific purpose of adjudicating whether the ship’s captain ill-treated and abused his Chinese ‘passengers’ while the ship was anchored for repairs in Yokohama Port. The chapter argues that the Maria Luz Incident was not a seminal moment when rights talk was introduced to Japan. Rather, the incident was due to a lack of consensus in international law regarding whether the ‘coolie trade’ was free labour or slavery. The research traces how international law and narrow ideas of freedom (the freedom to enter contracts) became aligned with the workings of Japanese licensed prostitution. 2021-02-10T14:09:45Z 2021-02-10T14:09:45Z 2020-07-27T09:26:19Z 2020 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/40104 9780367406806 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33625 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/40104/1/9780367406806_oachapter1.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/40104/1/9780367406806_oachapter1.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780367821494 10.4324/9780367821494 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 New Frontiers in Japanese Studies 9780367406806 Routledge 13 open access
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Chapter 1 Rethinking the Maria Luz Incident
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Japanese culture and society
Japanese politics
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