000287924 000__ 02622cam\a22003734a\45\0 000287924 001__ 287924 000287924 005__ 20210513105638.0 000287924 008__ 020613s2003\\\\nyu\\\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000287924 010__ $$a 2002026346 000287924 020__ $$a0679640851 (alk. paper) 000287924 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm50041628 000287924 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dXY4$$dUOI 000287924 042__ $$apcc 000287924 043__ $$aa-ja--- 000287924 049__ $$aISEA 000287924 05000 $$aDS881.9$$b.B87 2003 000287924 08200 $$a952.03$$221 000287924 1001_ $$aBuruma, Ian. 000287924 24510 $$aInventing Japan, 1853-1964 /$$cIan Buruma. 000287924 250__ $$aModern Library ed. 000287924 260__ $$aNew York :$$bThe Modern Library,$$c2003. 000287924 300__ $$a194 p. ;$$c20 cm. 000287924 440_0 $$aModern Library chronicles ;$$v12 000287924 500__ $$a"A Modern Library chronicles book." 000287924 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [183]-187) and index. 000287924 50500 $$gPrologue The$$tTokyo olympics --$$gThe --$$tBlack ships --$$tCivilization and enlightenment --$$tEro Guro Nansensu --$$tAh, our Manchuria --$$tWar against the west --$$tTokyo boogie-woogie --$$t1955 and all that. 000287924 5050_ $$aPrologue: Tokyo Olympics -- Black ships -- Civilization and enlightenment -- Ero Guro Nansensu -- Ah, our Manchuria -- War against the west -- Tokyo boogie-woogie -- 1955 and all that -- Epilogue; the end of the postwar. 000287924 520__ $$aIan Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan's history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular, preindustrial realm mutated into an expansive military dictatorship that essentially supplanted the British, French, Dutch, and American empires in Asia before plunging to utter ruin, eventually emerging under American tutelage as a pseudo-Western-style democracy and economic dynamo. Japan has always been both particularly open to the importation of good ideas and particularly prickly about keeping their influence quarantined, a bipolar disorder that would have dramatic consequences and that continues to this day. If one book is to be read in order to understand why the Japanese seem so impossibly strange to many Americans, Inventing Japan is surely it. 000287924 651_0 $$aJapan$$xHistory$$y1868- 000287924 651_0 $$aJapan$$xHistory$$yRestoration, 1853-1870. 000287924 85200 $$bgen$$hDS881.9$$i.B87$$i2003 000287924 85642 $$3Contributor biographical information$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random054/2002026346.html 000287924 85641 $$3Sample text$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random044/2002026346.html 000287924 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0411/2002026346.html 000287924 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:287924$$pGLOBAL_SET 000287924 980__ $$aBIB 000287924 980__ $$aBOOK 000287924 994__ $$aC0$$bISE