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

"A symbol of the "new Japan" displayed at World's Fairs, depicted in travel posters, and celebrated as the product of a national spirit of innovation, the Tōkaidō Shinkansen--the first bullet train, dubbed the "dream super-express"--represents the bold aspirations of a...

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Tác giả chính: Abel, Jessamyn R., 1970- (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Sách
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2022.
Loạt:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Mục lục:
  • Introduction : dreams of infrastructure
  • Invisible infrastructures of protest in Kyoto
  • Reconstructing the Tōkaidō
  • Railroad for the information society
  • Nostalgia for imperial Japan
  • Technology of cultural diplomacy
  • Conclusion : bullet train dreams in the twenty-first century.