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Japan Story

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Japan Story

By Christopher Harding

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About the book

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 MacGregorIt 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...Show more

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ISBN

9780241296486

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2018

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Edition

1

Original title

Japan Story

Format

Hardcover

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