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2017.2

EDITORIAL NOTE

 Monica Juneja, Joachim Kurtz, and Rudolf G. Wagner  .04

ARTICLES

Fiona Siegenthaler
To Embrace or to Contest Urban Regeneration?  
Ambiguities of Artistic and Social Practice in  
Contemporary Johannesburg .07

Egas Moniz Bandeira
China and the Political Upheavals in Russia,  
the Ottoman Empire, and Persia: Non-Western  
Influences on Constitutional Thinking in  
Late Imperial China, 1893–1911 .40

Takahiro Yamamoto
Privilege and Competition: Tashiroya in the  
East Asian Treaty Ports, 1869–1895 .79

Steven Ivings
Trade and Conflict at the Japanese Frontier:  
Hakodate as a Treaty Port, 1854–1884 .103



2 Contributors

Transcultural Studies, No 2, 2017

Editors:
Monica Juneja, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Joachim Kurtz, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Rudolf G. Wagner, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Managing Editor:
Russell Ó Ríagáin

Editorial Board:
Christiane Brosius, Antje Fluechter, Madeleine Herren, Birgit Kellner, Axel 
Michaels, Barbara Mittler, Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, Vladimir Tikhonov, 
and Roland Wenzlhuemer.

Transcultural Studies is edited at the Heidelberg Center for Transcultural 
Studies (HCTS) and published by Heidelberg University Publishing. The 
journal is freely available at http://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/ (open access).

ISSN: 2191-6411

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE:

Fiona Siegenthaler is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Social  
Anthropology, University of Basel, Switzerland, and a Research Associate  
at the Research Centre Visual Identities in Art and Design (VIAD),  
University of Johannesburg. With an MA in art history (2005) and a  
PhD in social anthropology (2012), her interests lie in the intersection of  
social sciences and the humanities, and contemporary visual and  
performative arts in particular. She has work experience in academia as  
well as in art galleries, art education, art criticism, and curatorial practice.

Egas Moniz Bandeira is a PhD candidate at the Cluster of Excellence  
“Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at Heidelberg University, as well  
as at the School of Law of Tohoku University in Sendai (Japan). He studied 



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Law and East Asian Studies at Heidelberg University and is licensed  
to practice law in Germany. His research interests include the legal, political, 
and intellectual history of late Imperial China, Sino-Japanese and Sino-
Russian relations, and theories of the state.

Takahiro Yamamoto received his PhD in international history from  
the London School of Economics in 2016. Having held postdoctoral 
fellowships in Shanghai and Tokyo, he is currently an assistant professor  
of cultural economic history at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe  
in a Global Context” at Heidelberg University.

Steven Ivings studied Economic History at the London School of Economics 
& Political Science (LSE – University of London) and Japanese Studies at 
the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS – University of London).  
His PhD thesis examined colonial settlement and migratory labor in  
Karafuto (Southern Sakhalin) from 1905 to 1945. His current research 
interests include the Japanese empire in comparative perspective, colonial 
migration, migratory labor markets in northern Japan, Hokkaido in the  
context of Japanese and global history, whaling, and the sports and  
leisure industries in East Asia.