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| 100 | 1 | _aBuruma, Ian. | |
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_aInventing Japan, 1853-1964 / _cIan Buruma. |
| 250 | _aModern Library paperback edtion. | ||
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_aNew York : _bThe Modern Library, _c2004. |
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_a194 p. ; _c20 cm. |
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_aModern Library chronicles ; _v11 |
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| 500 | _a"A Modern Library chronicles book." | ||
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [183]-187) and index. | ||
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_gPrologue The _tTokyo olympics -- _gThe -- _tBlack ships -- _tCivilization and enlightenment -- _tEro Guro Nansensu -- _tAh, our Manchuria -- _tWar against the west -- _tTokyo boogie-woogie -- _t1955 and all that. |
| 505 | 0 | _aPrologue: Tokyo Olympics -- Black ships -- Civilization and enlightenment -- Ero Guro Nansensu -- Ah, our Manchuria -- War against the west -- Tokyo boogie-woogie -- 1955 and all that -- Epilogue; the end of the postwar. | |
| 520 | _aIan Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan's history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular, preindustrial realm mutated into an expansive military dictatorship that essentially supplanted the British, French, Dutch, and American empires in Asia before plunging to utter ruin, eventually emerging under American tutelage as a pseudo-Western-style democracy and economic dynamo. Japan has always been both particularly open to the importation of good ideas and particularly prickly about keeping their influence quarantined, a bipolar disorder that would have dramatic consequences and that continues to this day. If one book is to be read in order to understand why the Japanese seem so impossibly strange to many Americans, Inventing Japan is surely it. | ||
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_aJapan _xHistory _yRestoration, 1853-1870. |
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_aJapon _xHistoire _y1853-1870 (Restauration) |
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