Dream super-express : a cultural history of the world's first bullet train / Jessamyn Abel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abel, Jessamyn, 1970- author.

Series:

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

High speed trains--Social aspects--Japan--History.

High speed trains.

Railroads--Social aspects--Japan--History.

Railroads.

Technology--Social aspects--Japan--History.

Technology.

Tōkaidō Shinkansen (High speed train)--History.

Tōkaidō Shinkansen (High speed train).

Japan--History--1945-1989.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

How the various, often contradictory, images of the Tôkaidô Shinkansen prompted a reimagination of identity on the levels of individual, metropolis, and nation in a changing Japan.

Contents:

Cover

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Dreams of Infrastructure

1. Invisible Infrastructures of Protest in Kyoto

2. Reconstructing the Tōkaidō

3. Railroad for the Information Society

4. Nostalgia for Imperial Japan

5. Technology of Cultural Diplomacy

Conclusion: Bullet Train Dreams in the Twenty-First Century

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Series List

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

1328138076