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An innovative ethnography and social history of the Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan.
With Australian tourists flocking to Japan in numbers greater than ever before, Rice, Noodle, Fish coulnd't have arrived in a better moment. Part travel guide, part cultural celebration, this is the perfect book for anyone obsessed with food (and aren't we all!). Celebrated traveller and writer, Matt Goulding, navigates the intersection between food, history and culture. Organised into seven key regions, Rice, Noodle, Fish explores Japan's most intriguing culinary disciplines in an informative, intelligent, jovial manner. From the kaiseki of Kyoto and sushi masters of Tokyo, to the street food of Osaka and the ramen of Fukuoka, Rice, Noodle, Fish contains countless facts you never knew and would never have guessed. Its a wonderfully detailed, artful book that will have you appreciating your japanese adventure that much more.
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‘National Strategies for Regional Integration: South and East Asian Case Studies’ examines how each country’s integration with its neighbours and more distant regional economies might be improved. The country cases illustrate the diversity of Asian development experience and offer lessons for other countries and regions interested in developing national strategies to foster regional integration.
The city of Tokyo, renamed after the Meiji Restoration, developed an urban culture that was a dynamic integration of Edo’s highly developed traditions and Meiji renovations, some of which reflected the influence of Western culture. This wide-ranging anthology—including fictional and dramatic works, essays, newspaper articles, political manifestos, and cartoons—tells the story of how the city’s literature and arts grew out of an often chaotic and sometimes paradoxical political environment to move toward a consummate Japanese “modernity.” Tokyo’s downtown audience constituted a market that demanded visuality and spectacle, while the educated uptown favored written, realistic lit...