Coffee Life in Japan

Name: Coffee Life in Japan
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ISBN: 9780520271159

ISBN-10: 0520271157

ISBN-13: 9780520271159

Edition: 2012

Authors: Merry White

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"Traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America. White's book takes up themes as diverse as gender, privacy, perfectionism, and urbanism. She shows how coffee and coffee spaces have been central to the formation of Japanese notions about the uses of public space, social change, modernity, and pleasure. White describes how the café in Japan, from its start in 1888, has been a place to encounter new ideas and experiments in thought, behavior, sexuality, dress, and taste. It is where a person can be socially, artistically, or…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Illustrations


Preface



Coffee in Public: Cafï¿½s in Urban Japan



Japan's Cafï¿½s: Coffee and the Counterintuitive



Modernity and the Passion Factory



Masters of Their Universes: Performing Perfection



Japan's Liquid Power



Making Coffee Japanese: Taste in the Contemporary Cafï¿½



Urban Public Culture: Webs, Grids, and Third Places in Japanese Cities



Knowing Your Place


Appendix: Visits to Cafï¿½s, an Unreliable Guide


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index