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The Japanese: a History In Twenty Lives
[Paperback - 2022]
christopher harding
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Category: History
Sub-category: Asian History
Publisher: Penguin Uk | ISBN: 9780141992280 | Pages: 528
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A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 Mightily impressive ... a marvellous read Waldemar Januszczak, Sunday Times From the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. The vivid and entertaining portraits in Chris Harding s enormously enjoyable new book take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life of the current empress, Masako. We encounter shamans and warlords, poets and revolutionaries, scientists, artists and adventurers - each offering insights of their own into this extraordinary place. For anyone new to Japan, this book is the ideal introduction. For anyone already deeply involved with it, this is a book filled with surprises and pleasures.

About the Author

Christopher Harding is the author of the widely praised Japan Story: In Search of a Nation - described by Neil MacGregor as Masterly. How much I admired it, what a lot I learned from it and, above all, how very much I enjoyed it - and The Japanese. Harding teaches at the University of Edinburgh and frequently broadcasts on Radio 3 and Radio 4.

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