Japan Story
In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present
$26.29
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
17 September 2019
Summary
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 nov…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141985374 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141985372 |
| Author: | Christopher Harding |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 17 September 2019 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 24mm |
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Magisterial
How much I admired it, what a lot I learned from it and, above all, how very much I enjoyed it. Although the broad outlines of the story were familiar (as they will be to every reader) almost all the more detailed information was new to me. I thought the book was masterly in the intermeshing of the personal and the political, the quotidian and the spiritual, the psycho-analytic with the journalistic, the long-historical with the contemporary, and everywhere finding and highlighting the poetic and the aesthetic.
– Neil MacGregorElegantly written and compelling history of Japan’s past century and a half – Bill Emmott * Spectator *Lucid and lyrical … delivered with his flair for storytelling … one of the best accounts I’veever read of what happens - for better and worse - when a country’s relationship with the world is abruptly renegotiated.
– Alex Dudok de Wit * Telegraph *Richly embroidered, well-written text … you will profit considerably from reading Japan Story. – Christopher Ross * Literary Review *A fresh, detailed, intimate, witty, and captivating tour across the evolving landscape of Japan over the past hundred and fifty years … told with compassion and with a storyteller’s wit and wisdom. – Will Harris * Books and Bao *Magisterial – Best New Books to Read Christmas 2018 * Tatler *About The Author
Christopher Harding
Christopher Harding teaches at the University of Edinburgh and frequently broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4.
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