To Japan and Back Travels through Tourism in Asia Terry Caesar 9781935591221 Books
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To Japan and Back. Travels through Tourism in Asia consists of a series of chapters on travels in various Asian countries--Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Bali, China, and Japan--as well as on the presence of these countries in Brazil and the United States. Why mention tourism? Because the author and his wife, although not exactly conventional tourists, travel according to the inescapable script of international tourism, with is postcards, and its buses as well as its wayward destinations or its iconic occasions. Two things especially distinguish To Japan and Back. Each of its chapters is presented differently, ranging from straightforward narrative through personal essay to memoir and journal. Throughout, the assumption is that travel experience, even that "through" tourism, is not best represented if each country is written about in the same way for the same reasons. This is particularly the case according to a second assumption that each country can be seen in terms of other countries. In part this is because of the way one actually abides in another, as India in Malaysia. In part also because one country keeps turning into another, as Japan into Brazil, or finally the whole of Asia into the United States. We travel today country-by-country. But we discover that not even Asia is organized so discreetly or uniformly. If there is an overall narrative in To Japan and Back it is not, or not only, the story of an American couple increasingly anxious to return home after living in Japan for four years. It lies just as urgently in the story of the same couple traveling to discover that "home" is everywhere and nowhere, while its materials are in commonplace as well as exotic places.
To Japan and Back Travels through Tourism in Asia Terry Caesar 9781935591221 Books
We've all seen kids wearing it: "My parents went to Italy and all they brought me was this lousy t-shirt." Terry Caesar went to Asia and brought us a great deal more.What do we see when we visit a Hindu temple or the Great Wall of China? Initially, only strange statues and ceremonies in the first case, and a lot of bricks in the second. This book employs history and economics and imagination to help us see the people and events that created them. The Orient, per an old Western view, is "inscrutable." Which is to say, Europeans and Americans couldn't place Asians within their own culture. Caesar probes what he sees and hears to tease out the human impulses all people share. We see that Thais and Chinese people are not variations on European themes, but that Asians and Europeans are variations on a deeper commonality. We see objects in a Chinese museum; Caesar pushes us toward meeting the people who made them.
There are many fine and insightful descriptions of place and things, but individuals in whom the author takes such interest are even more memorable. Tourists inevitable deal with tour guides and taxi drivers and beggars; here they emerge as men and women with personalities and histories.
At the end, the reader feels not only that he has seen the terraces at Pujung, but that he knows a guy there.
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To Japan and Back Travels through Tourism in Asia Terry Caesar 9781935591221 Books Reviews
We've all seen kids wearing it "My parents went to Italy and all they brought me was this lousy t-shirt." Terry Caesar went to Asia and brought us a great deal more.
What do we see when we visit a Hindu temple or the Great Wall of China? Initially, only strange statues and ceremonies in the first case, and a lot of bricks in the second. This book employs history and economics and imagination to help us see the people and events that created them. The Orient, per an old Western view, is "inscrutable." Which is to say, Europeans and Americans couldn't place Asians within their own culture. Caesar probes what he sees and hears to tease out the human impulses all people share. We see that Thais and Chinese people are not variations on European themes, but that Asians and Europeans are variations on a deeper commonality. We see objects in a Chinese museum; Caesar pushes us toward meeting the people who made them.
There are many fine and insightful descriptions of place and things, but individuals in whom the author takes such interest are even more memorable. Tourists inevitable deal with tour guides and taxi drivers and beggars; here they emerge as men and women with personalities and histories.
At the end, the reader feels not only that he has seen the terraces at Pujung, but that he knows a guy there.
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