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Video night in Kathmandu : and other reports from the not-so-far East / Pico Iyer.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Vintage departuresPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, 1989.Edition: 1st Vintage departures edDescription: 376 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0679722165
  • 9780679722168
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 950/.428 19
LOC classification:
  • DS10 .I87 1989
Contents:
Love match -- Bali: on Prospero's Isle -- Tibet: the underground overland invasion -- Nepal: the quest becomes a trek -- China: the door swings both ways -- The Philippines: Born in the U.S.A. -- Burma: the Raj is dead! Long live the Raj! -- Hong Kong: the Empire's new clothes -- India: Hollywood in the fifties -- Thailand: love in a duty-free zone -- Japan: perfect strangers; The Empire Strikes Back -- Afterword to the Vintage Edition -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: "Mohawk hair-cuts in Bali, yuppies in Hong Kong and Rambo rip-offs in the movie houses of Bombay are just a few of the jarring images that Iyer brings back from the Far East"--Provided by publisher.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK Harrison Memorial Library NONFICTION Adult Nonfiction 950 IYE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31624003718657
Total holds: 0

"Mohawk hair-cuts in Bali, yuppies in Hong Kong and Rambo rip-offs in the movie houses of Bombay are just a few of the jarring images that Iyer brings back from the Far East"--Provided by publisher.

Love match -- Bali: on Prospero's Isle -- Tibet: the underground overland invasion -- Nepal: the quest becomes a trek -- China: the door swings both ways -- The Philippines: Born in the U.S.A. -- Burma: the Raj is dead! Long live the Raj! -- Hong Kong: the Empire's new clothes -- India: Hollywood in the fifties -- Thailand: love in a duty-free zone -- Japan: perfect strangers; The Empire Strikes Back -- Afterword to the Vintage Edition -- Acknowledgments.

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