Rediscovering America : Japanese Perspectives on the American Century / / Peter Duus, Kenji Hasegawa

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (357 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.7305209/04
• Soggetto topico: Japan - Relations - United States; Japan -- Relations -- United States; Public opinion - Japan; Public opinion -- Japan; United States - Civilization - 20th century - Foreign public opinion, Japanese; United States -- Civilization -- 20th century -- Foreign public opinion, Japanese; United States - Foreign public opinion, Japanese; United States -- Foreign public opinion, Japanese; United States - Relations - Japan; United States -- Relations -- Japan; Regions & Countries - Americas; History & Archaeology; United States - General
• Soggetto geografico: United States Foreign public opinion, Japanese; United States Civilization 20th century Foreign public opinion, Japanese; United States Relations Japan; Japan Relations United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): DuusPeter; HasegawaKenji
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Illusion and Disillusion -- Chapter 2. Students and Immigrants -- Chapter 3. Modan America -- Chapter 4. The American Enemy -- Chapter 5. The American Occupiers -- Chapter 6. America Ascendant -- Chapter 7. America in Decline -- Notes
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Rediscovering America
• ISBN: 1-283-27852-9; 9786613278524; 0-520-95037-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456463603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power