Conclusion: Minorities in a Monoethnic State and the Micropolitics of Everyday Life

The story of how the Yokohama Chinese maintained their community from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century reveals radical transformations in their collective identities beneath apparent continuities. Broadly speaking, interactions in local society and geopolitical developments allowed the rise of a unified sense of Chineseness, while at the same time, these Chinese also developed a strong sense of Yokohama localism. This concluding chapter examines how the Yokohama Chinese have understood their relationships with China, Japan, and Yokohama in more recent years, as well as the implications of the Yokohama Chinese identity position. The first section reflects on the