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Japan Story

By Christopher Harding

Japan Story Politics & History

Japan Story

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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
528
Release Date:
2018-11-01
Publication Date:
2018-11-01
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
024129648X
ISBN13:
9780241296486
Weight:
772 g
Height:
159 cm
Width:
241 cm
Thickness:
50 cm
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