E-Book, Englisch, Band 19, 360 Seiten
Reihe: Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power
Duus / Hasegawa Rediscovering America
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-520-95037-5
Verlag: University of California Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
Japanese Perspectives on the American Century
E-Book, Englisch, Band 19, 360 Seiten
Reihe: Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power
ISBN: 978-0-520-95037-5
Verlag: University of California Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
In this extraordinary collection of writings, covering the period from 1878 to 1989, a wide range of Japanese visitors to the United States offer their vivid, and sometimes surprising perspectives on Americans and American society. Peter Duus and Kenji Hasegawa have selected essays and articles by Japanese from many walks of life: writers and academics, bureaucrats and priests, politicians and journalists, businessmen, philanthropists, artists. Their views often reflect power relations between America and Japan, particularly during the wartime and postwar periods, but all of them dealt with common themes-America's origins, its ethnic diversity, its social conformity, its peculiar gender relations, its vast wealth, and its cultural arrogance-making clear that while Japanese observers often regarded the U.S. as a mentor, they rarely saw it as a role model.