{"product_id":"imagined-neighbors-9783777442662","title":"Imagined Neighbors","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis publication examines the Japanese artistic understanding of China from the late 1600s, Japan's period of seclusion, to its age of modernisation after the mid-nineteenth century.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume focuses on the ways Japanese painters from the late 1600s to the twentieth century pictured China, both as a real place and an imagined promised land. It features three essays by renowned Japanese art historians in addition to more than fifty catalogue entries highlighting unusual artworks revealing Japanese artists' complex responses to Chinese art, history, and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn recent years, a handful of scholarly studies have tried to push against the established narrative of an exclusively Western-inspired modern Japan. \u003cem\u003eImagined Neighbors\u003c\/em\u003e challenges the established narrative by offering a more nuanced approach to understanding the country's struggle with reconciling the old with the new as it reinvented itself into a modern nation-state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383875158252,"sku":"9783777442662","price":110.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/26216343483532.jpg?v=1773384751","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/imagined-neighbors-9783777442662","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}