Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present by Christopher Harding Groundswell Speaker 2024

Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present by Christopher Harding Groundswell Speaker 2024This is a fresh and surprising account of Japan's culture from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid nineteenth century to the present. 'How much I admired it, what a lot I learned from it and, above all, how very much I enjoyed it Masterly.' Neil MacGregorIt is told through the eyes of people who greeted this change not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's modernizers and nationalists, but with resistance, conflict, distress. We

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ISBN: 9781788453950 | Extent: 208 pages