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Rediscovering America : Japanese perspectives on the American century / edited by Peter Duus and Kenji Hasegawa.
- Title
- Rediscovering America : Japanese perspectives on the American century / edited by Peter Duus and Kenji Hasegawa.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
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- Description
- xi, 341 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In this extraordinary collection of writings, covering the period from 1878 to 1989, a wide range of Japanese visitors to the United States offer their vivid, and sometimes surprising perspectives on Americans and American society. Peter Duus and Kenji Hasegawa have selected essays and articles by Japanese from many walks of life: writers and academics, bureaucrats and priests, politicians and journalists, businessmen, philanthropists, artists. Their views often reflect power relations between America and Japan, particularly during the wartime and postwar periods, but all of them dealt with common themes - America's origins, its ethnic diversity, its social conformity, its peculiar gender relations, its vast wealth, and its cultural arrogance - making clear that while Japanese observers often regarded the U.S. as a mentor, they rarely saw it as a role model.
- Series Statement
- Twentieth-century Japan : the emergence of a world power ; 19
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Twentieth-century Japan 19.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- 1. Illusion and disillusion -- 2. Students and immigrants -- 3. Modan America -- 4. The American enemy -- 5. The American occupiers -- 6. America ascendant -- 7. America in decline.
- ISBN
- 9780520268432 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520268431 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780520268456 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0520268458 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2011004433
- OCLC
- 701330555
- SCSB-13769028
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library