Study On Japanese Nationals In Modern Tianjin

Emigrant, a national of a particular country living in another country for a long time but not retaining the nationality of the resident country, is not of political color in itself. However, it played an ignominious role and became the vanguard and accomplice for the intruders while western powers intimidated the weak countries in modern times. How they lived when they left their home country was the problem that social history should pay attention to. China and Japan is adjacent to each other, among which people communication has been very frequent. Early in history there were Japanese nationals visiting China for schooling or trade. However, in Modern times, Japan went a way to invade China, and many Japanese emigrants rushed to China. As the frontiers for Japanese invasion, Tianjin was attractive to the Japanese. Therefore, the study on the Japanese emigrants in Tianjin can not only reveal the essence of Japanese invasion to China in Modern times, but also learn its social realities, having a deep reality meaning.This paper attempts to do the research with the guide of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, and by application of history, sociology, textology, statistics, demography, etc. Specifically speaking, this paper includes the preface, four chapters and conclusion. The preface will introduce the object and approach of the thesis, the existing studies at home and abroad, and the meaning and creative points of this thesis; the first chapter will summarize the living space of Japanese emigrants, ie. the demarcation, creation and development of the Concession, and the management institution and how Japanese emigrants practiced the self rule; the second chapter analyzes the population shift, space distribution and occupation structure of Japanese emigrants, as well as their characteristics from the point view of sociology and demography; the third chapter sketches the trade between Tianjin and Japan in Modern times and Japanese trade, banking and industry in Tianjin, which will reveal how the Japanese transferred Tianjin into its invasion frontiers, and sketch the social structure and economic situation of Japanese emigrants; the fourth chapter discusses the social activities of Japanese emigrants, from the society organization, social activities, the response to anti-Japanese movement, education and health care affairs, leisure and amusement, analyzes the psycho course and the Japanese society constructed in Tianjin under the background of shift of Sino-Japanese relation; the concluding chapter makes an objective review on the society of Japanese emigrants, arguing the Japanese emigrants that lived in Tianjin, who were at the frontiers of Japanese invasion, under the background of deterioration of Sino-Japanese relation, and in addition for the insularity and strong group indicativeness of Japanese emigrants, had unconsciously become the accomplice of Japanese invaders. On the one hand, the society of Japanese emigrants was teemed with contradiction. Due to the international color and the feature of concession of Tianjin, while wanting to keep their tradition, and maintain their dignity, they tried to construct a heterotopia of Japanese society and shut themselves in a constrained space; on the other hand, they had to confront the collision from the Chinese and Western cultures, living under a constrained condition.