Rise & Fall of the Canton Trade System I
China in the World (1700–1860s)
Essay by Peter C. Perdue

Rise & Fall of the Canton Trade System II
Macau & Whampoa Anchorage (1700–1860s)
Essay by Peter C. Perdue

Rise & Fall of the Canton Trade System III
Canton & Hong Kong (1700–1860s)
Essay by Peter C. Perdue

Rise & Fall of the Canton Trade System IV
Image Galleries


Black Ships & Samurai
Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan (1853-1854)
by John W. Dower

Yokohama Boomtown
Foreigners in Treaty-Port Japan (1859-1872)
by John W. Dower

Felice Beato’s Japan: Places
An Album by the Pioneer Foreign Photographer in Yokohama
Essay by Allen Hockley

Felice Beato’s Japan: People
An Album by the Pioneer Foreign Photographer in Yokohama
Essay by Allen Hockley

Globetrotters’ Japan: Places
Foreigners on te Tourist Circuit in Meiji Japan
Essay by Allen Hockley

Globetrotters’ Japan: People
Foreigners on te Tourist Circuit in Meiji Japan
Essay by Allen Hockley

Throwing Off Asia l
Woodblock Prints of Domestic “Westernization” (1868-1912)
by John W. Dower

Throwing Off Asia ll
Woodblock Prints of the Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
by John W. Dower

Throwing Off Asia lll
Woodblock Prints of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05)
by John W. Dower

Asia Rising
Japanese Postcards of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05)
by John W. Dower

Yellow Promise/Yellow Peril
Foreign Postcards of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05)
by John W. Dower

Selling Shiseido I
Cosmetics Advertising & Design in Early 20th-Century Japan
Essay by Gennifer Weisenfeld

Selling Shiseido II
Cosmetics Advertising & Design in Early 20th-Century Japan
Visual Narratives

Selling Shiseido III
Cosmetics Advertising & Design in Early 20th-Century Japan
Image Galleries

Ground Zero 1945
Pictures by Atomic Bomb Survivors
Essay by John W. Dower

Ground Zero 1945: A Schoolboy’s Story
Testimony of Akihiro Takahashi
Illustrations by Goro Shikoku