Christopher Benfey

An incisive study of cultural identity and the implications--good and bad--of cultural cross-pollination describes the historical and cultural reciprocity that existed in the era following the Civil War between the United States and Japan, a country looking to reinvent itself as a cosmopolitan modern state. Reprint. 14,000 first printing.

Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan

The Great Wave

Christopher E. G. Benfey

Argues that, as both the United States and Japan attempted to adjust to massive internal changes in the late nineteenth century, they engaged in a reciprocal historical and cultural relationship.

The Great Wave Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan

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