Tokyo Life; New York Dreams is a bicultural study focusing on Japanese immigrants in New York and the ideas they had about what they would find there. It is one of the first works to consider Japanese immigration to the East Coast; where immigrants were of a different class and social background from the laborers who came to the West Coast and Hawaii. Beginning with a portrait of immigrants' lives in New York City; Mitziko Sawada returns to Tokyo to examine the pre-immigration experience in depth; using rich sources of popular Japanese literature to trace the origins of immigrant perceptions of the U.S.Along with discussions of economics and politics in Tokyo; Sawada explores the prevalent images; ideologies; social myths; and attitudes of late Meiji and Early Taisho Japan. Her lively narrative draws on guide books; magazines; success literature; and popular novels to illuminate the formation of ideas about work; class; gender relations; and freedom in American society. This study analyzes the Japanese construction of a mythic America; perceived as a homogeneous and exotic "other."
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Tara -- a Common Thread of Old Tibet +++By Kevin KierskyThe author of "The Cult of Tara"; Stephan Beyer; has most cleverly and wisely chosen Tara as a way to unify study of magic and ritual in Tibet across the many Vajrayana; Bon and Shamanic branches of Tantric Yoga. This work is one of the most detailed presentations on circa-Tibetan Tantric practice. Stephan Beyer directly interacted with many actual living circa-Tibetans and thereby gained their trust and some good understanding of their Tantra. One can see that Stephan Beyer put a greatly inspired well-learned effort into "The Cult of Tara". It is so well-learned that one would likely have a good foundation for the cultural anthroplogy of circa-Tibetan shamanic religion -- if one were to add study of "The Cult of Tara" to "Civilized Shamans" by Geoffrey Samuel.With all the apparent variety of shamanic religious tradition in circa-Tibet it is quite interesting that the very vast majority of circa-Tibetan Vajrayana; Bon and Shamanic folks have an inmost personal shrine to Tara -- the "Goddess" of Tibet. With the various levels of interpetation of the reality and meaning of an Entity such as Tara -- "Goddess" is only an approximate marker for Tara. A few like equivalents to Tara may be Isis of old Egypt; Sungoddess of Japan and Mary; Queen of Heaven. These three Ladies also having wide and deep meanings -- or maybe they are all of one She +++2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Excellent!By MichaelThis book is outstanding in every possible way. It requires some dedication to read it; because it is not light reading. It requires a lot of thought; and a lot of focus. That's because the subject matter is very complex. The author did a great job of presentation of the material; and he kept it as simple and readable as anyone could have.Set aside a month in seclusion in the mountains to read this if you can.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. read books not screensBy irene basilethe book was a gift for a spiritual friend. she was delighted to receive it and read it thoughtfully; often commenting about certain passages to me.
