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Japan story : in search of a nation, 1850 to the present
- Title
- Japan story : in search of a nation, 1850 to the present / Christopher Harding.
- Author
- Harding, Christopher, 1978-
- Publication
- [London] : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xi, 503 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid 19th century to the present, through the eyes of people who always had their doubts about modernity - who greeted it not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's familiar 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 masonry and mortar of mainstream Japan.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-453) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-2534
- ISBN
- 9780241296486
- 024129648X
- OCLC
- 1066745619
- Author
- Harding, Christopher, 1978- author.
- Title
- Japan story : in search of a nation, 1850 to the present / Christopher Harding.
- Publisher
- [London] : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-453) and index.
- Chronological Term
- Since 1868
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9780141985367
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-2534