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Smith, Patrick

 
9780679422310: Japan: A Reinterpretation
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679422315 ISBN 13: 9780679422310
Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

A landmark study of Japan in the modern world explores the history of the country over the past fifty years, exploring changes in its cultural, social, economic, and political institutions and assessing its role in contemporary world affairs. 35,000 first printing. Tour.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Patrick Smith has worked as an editor and correspondent for more than twenty years (fourteen of them in Asia) with, among other publications, the New York Times, the Financial Times of London, the International Herald Tribune, and The New Yorker. He is the author of The Nippon Challenge: Japan's Pursuit of the Americas Cup. He lives in Norfolk, Connecticut.

Aus dem Klappentext

are in the process of re-creating themselves--an endeavor they have undertaken at intervals throughout history, always prompted by a combination of domestic and global forces. In this landmark book, Patrick Smith asserts that a variety of forces--the achievement of material affluence, the Cold War's end, and the death of Emperor Hirohito--are now spurring Japan once again toward a fundamental redefinition of itself.

As Smith argues, this requires of the West an equally thorough reevaluation of the picture we have held of Japan over the past half-century. He reveals how economic overdevelopment conceals profound political, social, and psychological under-development. And by refocusing on "internal history" and the Japanese character, Smith offers a new framework for understanding Japan and the Japanese as they really are. The Japanese, he says, are now seeking to alter the very thing we believe distinguishes them: the relationship between the individual an

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Verlag
Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679422315
ISBN 13 
9780679422310
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
385
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