Japan Story by Christopher Harding
Japan Story by Christopher Harding
SKU: B9780141985374 • Barcode: 9780141985374

Japan Story

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Book information

  • Format: Paperback
  • Main subject: Asian history
  • Genre / subject: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
  • Author: Christopher Harding
  • Audience: Adults

About the book

Japan Story by Christopher Harding is a history book. A magical cultural history of modern Japan 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.

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