Presented By: Center for Japanese Studies
CANCELED - CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Japanese Traders in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City
Tatiana Seijas, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University
We apologize that we have had to cancel this event.
Franco Xuo “of the Japanese nation” was living in Mexico City in the 1630s, working as a trader. How did he come to be there and why did he stay? This talk examines his experiences along with those of other Japanese men to answer these questions. Their stories reveal that global trade in the early modern period depended on working men who moved thousands of miles away to take advantage of commercial centers knowing they might never return to their homelands.
Tatiana Seijas is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. She writes about global migrations, long-distance trade, urban economies, and the joined history of freedom and slavery. Her latest monograph “American Metropolis: The Making of Mexico City in the Seventeenth Century” is a new history of one of the early modern world's greatest entrepôts centered on the economic lives of ordinary people.
This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.
Image source: “Nova Mexico, Die Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld” (Amsterdam, 1671). Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library.
If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at wugou@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
Franco Xuo “of the Japanese nation” was living in Mexico City in the 1630s, working as a trader. How did he come to be there and why did he stay? This talk examines his experiences along with those of other Japanese men to answer these questions. Their stories reveal that global trade in the early modern period depended on working men who moved thousands of miles away to take advantage of commercial centers knowing they might never return to their homelands.
Tatiana Seijas is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. She writes about global migrations, long-distance trade, urban economies, and the joined history of freedom and slavery. Her latest monograph “American Metropolis: The Making of Mexico City in the Seventeenth Century” is a new history of one of the early modern world's greatest entrepôts centered on the economic lives of ordinary people.
This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.
Image source: “Nova Mexico, Die Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld” (Amsterdam, 1671). Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library.
If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at wugou@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
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