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Bending Adversity. Japan and the Art of Survival

Door David Pilling

Categorie	Geschiedenis Azië
Boeknummer	#269601
Titel	Bending Adversity. Japan and the Art of Survival
Auteur	Pilling, David
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London, Allan Lane
Jaar van uitgave	2014
ISBN10	1846145465
ISBN13	9781846145469
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 'An affectionate, beautifully written and counter-intuitively optimistic take on the country, which stresses Japan's ability to reinvent itself' (Gideon Rachman, Financial Times) Despite years of stagnation, Japan remains one of the world's largest economies and a country which exerts a remarkable cultural fascination. David Pilling's new book is an entertaining, deeply knowledgeable and surprising analysis of a group of islands which have shown great resilience, both in the face of financial distress and when confronted with the overwhelming disaster of the 2011 earthquake. The resulting tsunami, which killed some 19,000 people, and nuclear catastrophe highlighted both the deeply impressive practical resilience of ordinary Japanese and a political ... (Lees verder)culture of extraordinary carelessness and arrogance. Pilling describes the emergency and its aftermath, but then writes far more broadly about many aspects of Japan which are little known to outsiders and which do so much to explain these contradictory responses to the earthquake. Bending Adversity is a superb work of reportage and the essential book even for those who already feel they know the country well.
Pagina's	384
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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