01285nam a2200229Ia 4500 CTU_111430 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 134000 952.135 S458 Seidensticker, Edward Low city, high city : Tokyo from edo to the earthquake Edward Seidensticker Cambridge Harvard University Press 1983 Low City, High City is a lively and informal account of Tokyo's history from the end of the Tokugawa regime (in 1868) to the destruction of the city in the 1923 Kanto earthquake. During that half century, Tokyo was transformed from a feudal pre-industrial city of samurai and commoners to an imperial capital of bureacrats, businessmen, factory workers, and flappers. Seidensticker, a distinguished translator of Japanese literature, has written a highly readable cultural and social history of Tokyo that captures the colorful introduction of "Western" urbanism and chronicles the slowly fading old city. An absolute must for anyone with even a casual interest in Tokyo's past. Popular culture Tokyo, Japan Tuyến Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ