March 5th, 2012 at 9:45 am
Book Giveaway!: Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop
This week our featured book is Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop, by Michael Bourdaghs. (To browse the book.)
Throughout the week we will highlight aspects of the book and we are also offering a FREE copy of the book to one winner.
To enter our book giveaway, simply e-mail pl2164@columbia.edu with your name and address (U.S. and Canadian mailing addresses only, unfortunately). We will randomly select one winner on Friday at 1:00 pm. Good luck and spread the word!
Praise for Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop:
“Michael K. Bourdaghs’s compellingly readable Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon imaginatively conceives an original account of how Japan, in the postwar and Cold War years, broke with a historical narrative centered on the United States military occupation and Japan’s subsequent confinement within the American imperium to enter the actual world.” — Harry Harootunian, Duke University, author of Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan
March 6th, 2012 at 10:23 am
[...] Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop is the “featured book of the week” on the Columbia University Press blog. Among other things, they’re giving away a free copy, but hurry: the contest ends this Friday. Details are available here. [...]