Mimi Tokyo Paris

Author : Junichi Nishimura
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462005628

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Mimi Tokyo Paris by Junichi Nishimura Pdf

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.

Author : Sukehiro Hirakawa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789004214101

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Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn by Sukehiro Hirakawa Pdf

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.

Author : Masahiro Ogino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000486537

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Sociology of World Heritage by Masahiro Ogino Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas Hutson,Dominic Tzimisces
Publisher : River Junction Press LLC
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780985017811

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Doug & Wahwee by Thomas Hutson,Dominic Tzimisces Pdf

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.

Author : Isaac Titsingh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135787387

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Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns by Isaac Titsingh Pdf

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

Author : Christian Schittich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783034615556

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In Detail, Exhibitions and Displays by Christian Schittich Pdf

From trade fair stands to museum concepts, the successful transfer of information to a wide public audience relies on effective staging and appropriate architectural design. While museum exhibitions focus on the art of communicating content, with commercial aspects tending to play a more subordinate role, the goal of trade fair stands and showrooms is to convey a brand image. And at least since large companies like BMW and Mercedes began introducing commercialized museum concepts designed to stage their brands, the phenomenon has come full circle. Not infrequently, planners today must not only accomplish the demanding task of designing an exhibition; they must also meet full service demands, from briefings and CI design to realization. How to do this successfully is the subject of short articles by authors from the relevant fields. With extensively documented project examples organized by presentation or exhibition type, these valuable technical articles offer a detailed roadmap to practical success.

Author : C.P. Thunberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135787455

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Japan Extolled and Decried by C.P. Thunberg Pdf

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.

Author : Mimi Sheller,John Urry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134189748

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Mobile Technologies of the City by Mimi Sheller,John Urry Pdf

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.

Author : Stanca Scholz-Cionca,Samuel L. Leiter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9004120114

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Japanese Theatre and the International Stage by Stanca Scholz-Cionca,Samuel L. Leiter Pdf

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.

Author : Reinier H. Hesselink
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786499618

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The Dream of Christian Nagasaki by Reinier H. Hesselink Pdf

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.

Author : Catherine Vance Yeh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684175550

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The Chinese Political Novel by Catherine Vance Yeh Pdf

"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."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009854014

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Newsletter by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN : OSU:32435066729864

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Department of State News Letter by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : United States. Dept. of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN : UOM:39015047661221

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News Letter by United States. Dept. of State Pdf

Author : David M. Cummings
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9780948875533

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International Who's who in Music and Musicians' Directory by David M. Cummings Pdf