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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Stanford, California
Stanford University Press
[2022]
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| Schriftenreihe: | A Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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