Opium, Expulsion, Sovereignty. China's Lessons for Bakumatsu Japan Author(s): Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi Source: Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Spring, 1992), pp. 1-25 Published by: Sophia University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2385356 . Accessed: 27/10/2013 08:12 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Sophia University is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Monumenta Nipponica. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 142.51.1.212 on Sun, 27 Oct 2013 08:12:48 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Opium, Expulsion, Sovereignty China's Lessonsfor Bakumatsu Japan BOB TADASHI WAKABAYASHI T%HE foreigninvasions and massiveinternal rebellions that wracked Ch'ing-dynastyChina in themid-decades of thenineteenth century had seriousramifications for Japan and the Tokugawa regime.To giveone example,in June 1858 China signedthe Treatyof T'ientsinthat temporarily halted the Second Opium War.' And in the followingmonth, U.S. Consul Townsend Harris forcedthe Edo bakufu to granthim a treatythat formally permittedforeign trade and residencein Japan. By grantingHarris's treaty,bakufu leaders revokednational isolation, or sakoku , a hallowed state law then generally,although mistakenly, pre- sumed to date fromthe startof Tokugawa rule.