Inventing Japan Ian Buruma
The story of modern Japan, from first 'opening' to the West with Admiral Perry's Black Ships in 1853, through World War II, to Japan's emergence as a Western-style democracy and economic power at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Inventing Japan
Inventing Japan
Zusammenfassung
The fateful span of Japan's modern history, in which it has undergone as dramatic a transformation as any country has known.
Inventing Japan Zusammenfassung
Inventing Japan Bewertungen
Buruma is very good at crisply making plain the falseness of many assumptions about Japan. -- ANTHONY THWAITE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH As a biography of a nation which impinges upon every level of our society it is admirably cogent reading. -- MARTIN BOOTH LITERARY REVIEW Buruma's early chapters are particularly good, written with characteristic equanimity and clarity. TLS Buruma has provided a timely reflection on the unresolved conflicts at the heart of this modern state. THE TIMES Ian Buruma's concise history is an excellent introduction. Buruma is the Westerner who understands Japan best. He has all the natural gifts historians need. SUNDAY TIMES A vigorous polemical essay that has annoyed some nationalists and should provoke many more. THE SCOTSMAN
Über Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma was born in the Netherlands to a Dutch father and English mother in 1951. Though educated in both Holland and Japan, Ian Buruma spent a great portion of his life in Asia. He has written such books as God's Dust: A Modern Asian Journey, Behind the Mask and The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan. His novel, Playing the Game, is a fictional biography about the life of an Indian prince who played cricket in Britain. Buruma has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Institute for the Humanities in Washington, D.C.
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GOR010229881
9781842126875
1842126873
Inventing Japan Ian Buruma
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