Three Tigers, One Mountain A Journey through Bitter History Current Conflicts of China, Korea

Informationen zum Autor Michael Booth is the author of six books, including the international bestseller, The Almost Nearly Perfect People , winner of the British Guild of Travel Writers award for Book of the Year, and Sushi and Beyond , which won the Guild of Food Writers award. Klappentext 'The next Bill Bryson' New York Times Two tigers cannot share the same mountain - Chinese proverb Despite geographical proximity, cultural similarities, and shared status as highly powerful nations, China, Korea and Japan love to hate each other. Why? In search of an answer, Michael Booth journeys across East Asia to explore the mutual animosity that frequently threatens to draw the world into all-out war. From misjudged cake decorations to electoral meddling, contradictory origin myths to territorial disputes, this deeply researched and hugely entertaining book shows that no conflict is too small to keep the fires of neighbourly hostility burning. 'A fine summary of East Asian cultures and conflicts...useful, fact-packed and readable' Spectator Zusammenfassung 'The next Bill Bryson' New York TimesTwo tigers cannot share the same mountain - Chinese proverbDespite geographical proximity, cultural similarities, and shared status as highly powerful nations, China, Korea and Japan love to hate each other.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Michael Booth, Booth Michael
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 14.01.2021
• Categoria: Viaggi > Reportage di viaggio, racconti di viaggio; Saggistica > Storia > Altro
• EAN: 9781784704247
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-424-7
• Numero di pagine: 240
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.8 x 19.7 x 2.4 cm
• Categorie: Japan, China, Pearl Harbor, Politics, Culture, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Social History, American History, Taiwan, Asia, British Empire, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Geopolitics, Nationalism, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Asia / China, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, International Relations, HISTORY / Asia / Korea, Middle East, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, South East Asia, Book of the Year, K Pop, South Korea, Social and cultural history, Social and cultural anthropology, Asian History, North Korea, TRAVEL / Asia / East / General, TRAVEL / Asia / East / Japan, TRAVEL / Asia / East / China, north and south, British History, History of Asia, World War Two, War History, Origin stories, history of the world, the world at war, travel activities, world wars books, books by bill bryson, notes from a small island, cultural misunderstandings, chinese proverbs, disputed boundaries