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020			_z9781860340093 _q(print)
024	7		_a10.1163/9789004214118 _2DOI
035			_a(OCoLC)605153055
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082	0	4	_a952.04092 _223
100	1		_aWinter, Kazuko, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDear Ken-chan : _bA Letter from Japan / _cKazuko Winter.
246	3		_aA Letter from Japan
264		1	_aLeiden ; _aBoston : _bBrill, _c1996.
264		4	_c©1996
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aAsian Studies - Book Archive pre-2000
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_tPreliminary Material / _rKazuko Winter -- Preface / _rKazuko Winter -- Part One Beginnings / _rKazuko Winter -- Part Two India / _rKazuko Winter -- Part Three South Africa / _rKazuko Winter -- Part Four Sojourn in Shibuya / _rKazuko Winter -- Part Five Australia / _rKazuko Winter -- Part Six Nigeria and Return to Sydney / _rKazuko Winter -- Part Seven Things Japanese / _rKazuko Winter -- Part Eight Oxford / _rKazuko Winter -- Part Nine South America / _rKazuko Winter -- Part Ten Back in Oxford / _rKazuko Winter -- Part Eleven Return to Asuncion / _rKazuko Winter -- Part Twelve Germany / _rKazuko Winter -- Part Thirteen Kilimanjaro / _rKazuko Winter -- Part Fourteen Back to Europe / _rKazuko Winter -- Part Fifteen Rediscovering Japan / _rKazuko Winter -- Postscript / _rKazuko Winter.
520			_aThis candid memoir is a gripping personal tale of cultural schizophrenia. Kazuko Winter was the daughter of a high-ranking Japanese diplomat, raised and educated outside her native Japan in India, South Africa, Australia, and Oxford, England, in the 1950s and 1960s. She also spent time with her parents in Nigeria and Paraguay. Never fully at home anywhere, she suffered from an increasing sense of isolation that once led her to the brink of suicide, and at another stage to seriously consider entering a Catholic order of nuns. Written in the form of a letter to an old Japanese friend, the book relates the author’s turbulent love affair with a young Japanese diplomat, her turbulent decision to break off the affair because she did not believe she belonged within Japanese society, and her subsequent happy marriage to a German scholar. At once disturbing and uplifting, this is an intensely felt story of the path to healing and her gradual reacceptance of herself, her mother and her Japanese heritage.
546			_aEnglish
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aEthnicity _zJapan.
650		0	_aWomen _zJapan _vBiography.
651		0	_aJapan _vBiography.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tDear Ken-chan : A Letter from Japan. _dLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 1996. _z9781860340093 _w(OCoLC)35137166 _w(DLC) 97135367
830		0	_aAsian Studies - Book Archive pre-2000.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004214118
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