Mimi Tokyo Paris
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Mimi Tokyo Paris
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Author : Junichi Nishimura
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2011-05-10
Mimi Tokyo Paris written by Junichi Nishimura and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-10 with Fiction categories.
Mimi considers herself to be TJa typical Japanese person. At thirty years old, she has earned a masters degree in social work and has been making coffee for eight years at Doutor, a Japanese chain of coffee houses. Shes sure she could get a better job if she tried, but she still wonders if shes wasting her life. Having saved enough money, Mimi embarks on a vacation to Paris, Francea holiday that turns her life upside down. While experiencing Frances art and culture, she meets Eddie, a Frenchmen enamored with all things Japanese. Though from different cultures and different worlds, the two fall in love, and Eddie returns with Mimi to Japan. But what promises to transform her life is her contact with all things Chinese. This growing dragon of a country threatens to swallow up its Asian neighbors, like Japan. Could China be the source of opportunity and fulfillment that Mimi is looking for? Mimi Tokyo Paris follows Mimi as she makes her life choices against the backdrop of her relationships; her story provides an introspective look at the Japanese culture and way of life.
Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn
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Author : Sukehiro Hirakawa
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2024-01-08
Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn written by Sukehiro Hirakawa and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A discussion of one of the great interpreters of Japan. The Japanese have always revered Hearn and this book shows the West why he is revered. Experts look at his writings and discuss his integrity as an observer and interpreter of Japan and the Japanese.
Sociology Of World Heritage
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Author : Masahiro Ogino
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-11-29
Sociology Of World Heritage written by Masahiro Ogino and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-29 with Social Science categories.
Taking mainly Japanese and other Asian case studies as examples, Ogino examines the motivations behind the preservation of objects and sites considered to be of cultural significance. Using mainly the perspectives of Japanese approaches to cultural heritage, the book critiques the European logic of cultural heritage enshrined by UNESCO. It contrasts a Western emphasis on monuments and sites, with an Asian emphasis on more intangible forms of heritage, which place less emphasis on a linear view of time. More practically, the authors also analyse the positive and negative impacts that UNESCO-listed status has had on sites in Asia, including Angkor Wat, Nagasaki, and Lijiang. Finally, they address fundamental questions about who gets to decide what counts as cultural heritage, and what the underlying rationale is for actively preserving heritage in the first place. This books is a thoughtful and provocative analysis of issues that will be of interest to sociologists, as well as scholars and students of cultural heritage.
Doug Wahwee
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Author : Thomas Hutson
language : en
Publisher: River Junction Press LLC
Release Date : 2012-09-01
Doug Wahwee written by Thomas Hutson and has been published by River Junction Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with History categories.
This biography tells the little-known story of lifelong ambassador and diplomat Doug MacArthur, the nephew of General Douglas MacArthur, and his wife, Wahwee. Through interviews and firsthand accounts from those who knew him, this biography of the prominent 20th-century emissary sheds light on the important role Ambassador MacArthur had in foreign affairs post–World War II. This unique work shows how MacArthur had a rich career as a professional diplomat, was a member of the French Resistance, a prisoner of war, a political and military advisor to President Eisenhower, Assistant Secretary of State, and postwar security treaty negotiator with Japan. This collection of oral histories on both Doug and his wife gives fresh insight into their professional and personal lives.
Secret Memoirs Of The Shoguns
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Author : Isaac Titsingh
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-03-17
Secret Memoirs Of The Shoguns written by Isaac Titsingh and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Isaac Titsingh was intermittently head of the Japan factory (trading station) of the Dutch East India Company 1780-94. He was a career merchant, but unusual in having a classical education and training as a physician. His impact in Japan was enormous, but he left disappointed in the ability of the country to embrace change. After many years in Java, India and China, he came to London, and then settled in Paris where he devoted himself to compiling translations of prime Japanese texts. It is one of the most exciting anthologies of the period and reveals the almost unknown world of eighteenth-century Japan, discussing politics, history, poetry and rituals. The Illustrations of Japan appeared posthumously in 1821-1822 in English, French and Dutch. This fully annotated edition makes the original English version available for the first time in nearly two centuries
Japan Extolled And Decried
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Author : C.P. Thunberg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-11-12
Japan Extolled And Decried written by C.P. Thunberg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-12 with History categories.
This edition makes available once again Thunberg’s extraordinary writings on Japan, complete with illustrations, a full introduction and annotations. Carl Peter Thunberg, pupil and successor of Linnaeus – of the great fathers of modern science – spent eighteen fascinating months in the notoriously inaccessible Japan in 1775-1776, and this is his story. Thunberg studied at Uppsala University in Sweden where he was a favourite student of the great Linnaeus, father of modern scientific classification. He determined to travel the world and enlisted as a physician with the Dutch East India Company. He arrived in Japan in the summer of 1775 and stayed for eighteen months. He observed Japan widely, and travelled to Edo (modern Tokyo) where he became friends with the shogun’s private physician, Katsuragawa Hoshû, a fine Scholar and a notorious rake. They maintained a correspondence even after Thunberg had returned to his homeland. Thunberg’s ‘Travels’ appeared in English in 1795 and until now has never been reprinted. Fully annotated and introduced by Timon Screech.
Mobile Technologies Of The City
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Author : Mimi Sheller
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-04-18
Mobile Technologies Of The City written by Mimi Sheller and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-18 with Social Science categories.
Mobile communications technologies are taking off across the world, while urban transportation and surveillance systems are also being rebuilt and updated. Emergent practices of physical, informational and communicational mobility are reconfiguring patterns of movement, co-presence, social exclusion and security across many urban contexts. This book brings together a carefully selected group of innovative case studies of these mobile technologies of the city, tracing the emergence of both new socio-technical practices of the city and of a new theoretical paradigm for mobilities research.
Japanese Theatre And The International Stage
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Author : Stanca Scholz-Cionca
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2001
Japanese Theatre And The International Stage written by Stanca Scholz-Cionca and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Performing Arts categories.
This is the most internationally comprehensive collection on Japanese theatre ever published. A team of authors from ten nations contributes twenty-five wide-ranging essays, covering everything from kagura ritual forms to postmodern angura.
The Dream Of Christian Nagasaki
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Author : Reinier H. Hesselink
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-12-07
The Dream Of Christian Nagasaki written by Reinier H. Hesselink and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-07 with History categories.
Nagasaki, on the west coast of the Japanese island of Kyushu, is known in the West for having been the target of an atomic bomb attack on August 9, 1945. Less well known is that the city was founded by Europeans, Jesuit missionaries who arrived in the area in the second half of the 16th century. The Jesuits had come to convert the Japanese. After baptizing a Japanese lord or daimyo of the area, they established Nagasaki in 1571 to provide the Portuguese a safe harbor in his domain. Profits for the daimyo and the Japanese who converted to Christianity soon followed. This book is the first comprehensive history in any language of the rise and fall of Christian Nagasaki (1560-1640). The author provides a narrative of the city's early years from both the European and Japanese perspectives.
The Chinese Political Novel
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Author : Catherine Vance Yeh
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-05-11
The Chinese Political Novel written by Catherine Vance Yeh and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
"The political novel, which enjoyed a steep yet short rise to international renown between the 1830s and the 1910s, is primarily concerned with the nation’s political future. It offers a characterization of the present, a blueprint of the future, and the image of the heroes needed to get there. With the standing it gained during its meteoric rise, the political novel helped elevate the novel altogether to become the leading literary genre of the twentieth century worldwide.Focusing on its adaptation in the Chinese context, Catherine Vance Yeh traces the genre from Disraeli’s England through Europe and the United States to East Asia. Her study goes beyond comparative approaches and nation-state- and language-centered histories of literature to examine the intrinsic connections among literary works. Through detailed studies, especially of the Chinese exemplars, Yeh explores the tensions characteristic of transcultural processes: the dynamics through which a particular, and seemingly local, literary genre goes global; the ways in which such a globalized literary genre maintains its core features while assuming local identity and interacting with local audiences and political authorities; and the relationship between the politics of form and the role of politics in literary innovation."