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Japan Story

- In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present
Af: Christopher Harding Engelsk Paperback

Japan Story

- In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present
Af: Christopher Harding Engelsk Paperback
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This is a fresh and surprising account of Japan''s culture from the ''opening up'' of the country in the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

''How much I admired it, what a lot I learned from it and, above all, how very much I enjoyed it ... Masterly.'' Neil MacGregor

It is told through the eyes of people who greeted this change not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan''s modernizers and nationalists, but with resistance, conflict, distress.

We encounter writers of dramas, ghost stories and crime novels where modernity itself is the tragedy, the ghoul and the bad guy; surrealist and avant-garde artists sketching their escape; rebel kamikaze pilots and the put-upon urban poor; hypnotists and gangsters; men in desperate search of the eternal feminine and feminists in search of something more than state-sanctioned subservience; Buddhists without morals; Marxist terror groups; couches full to bursting with the psychological fall-out of breakneck modernization. These people all sprang from the soil of modern Japan, but their personalities and projects failed to fit. They were ''dark blossoms'': both East-West hybrids and home-grown varieties that wreathed, probed and sometimes penetrated the new structures of mainstream Japan.

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This is a fresh and surprising account of Japan''s culture from the ''opening up'' of the country in the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

''How much I admired it, what a lot I learned from it and, above all, how very much I enjoyed it ... Masterly.'' Neil MacGregor

It is told through the eyes of people who greeted this change not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan''s modernizers and nationalists, but with resistance, conflict, distress.

We encounter writers of dramas, ghost stories and crime novels where modernity itself is the tragedy, the ghoul and the bad guy; surrealist and avant-garde artists sketching their escape; rebel kamikaze pilots and the put-upon urban poor; hypnotists and gangsters; men in desperate search of the eternal feminine and feminists in search of something more than state-sanctioned subservience; Buddhists without morals; Marxist terror groups; couches full to bursting with the psychological fall-out of breakneck modernization. These people all sprang from the soil of modern Japan, but their personalities and projects failed to fit. They were ''dark blossoms'': both East-West hybrids and home-grown varieties that wreathed, probed and sometimes penetrated the new structures of mainstream Japan.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 528
ISBN-13: 9780141985374
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0141985372
Kategori: Japan
Udg. Dato: 1 aug 2019
Længde: 25mm
Bredde: 197mm
Højde: 132mm
Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 1 aug 2019
Forfatter(e): Christopher Harding
Forfatter(e) Christopher Harding


Kategori Japan


ISBN-13 9780141985374


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 528


Udgave


Længde 25mm


Bredde 197mm


Højde 132mm


Udg. Dato 1 aug 2019


Oplagsdato 1 aug 2019


Forlag Penguin Books Ltd

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