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Japan Story In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present

Paperback • 2019 • English

Japan Story In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present

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 MacGregor It 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, gh...Show more

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ISBN

9780141985374

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published year

2019

Language

English

Original title

Japan Story In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present

Format

Paperback

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