Tokyo in Transit

Tokyo in Transit
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : 9780804771450
ISBN-13 : 0804771456
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Book Synopsis Tokyo in Transit by : Alisa Freedman

Download or read book Tokyo in Transit written by Alisa Freedman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work discusses literary depictions of mass transit in 20th century Tokyo in the decades preceding WWII. It cuts across literary and historical/sociological analysis, and contributes to the growing body of work examining Japanese urbanism, gender, and modernism.

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