Tokyo Life, New York Dreams / Mitziko Sawada.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sawada, Mitziko, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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." This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Tables

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

Glossary

1. Introduction

2. The Japanese Immigrant in New York City

3. Culprits and Gentlemen

4. Changing City, Changing Lives

5. The Road to Success

6. "Go East, Young Man!"

7. Maidens of Japan, Women of the West

8. Conclusion

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Notes

Sources Consulted

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Okt 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520337701

0520337700

OCLC:

1198929794